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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 20, 2009
Applicants:
Raymond Lee, Palatine, IL (US);
Brian Bowers, Mundelein, IL (US);
Inventors:
Raymond Lee, Palatine, IL (US);
Brian Bowers, Mundelein, IL (US);
Assignee:
Bell and Howell, LLC, Durham, NC (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/00 (2006.01); G06Q 10/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present teachings relate to a method and system for the processing of mail items within a multiple device document processing environment to ensure generation of unique mail items. The present teachings provides for an improved system and method for assigning and maintaining unique mail item identifiers and processing of the unique mail items in a multiple mail processing device environment to qualify for maximum postal work sharing discounts.