Modifying a firmware variable in an electronic postage meter
US4739486A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | May 1, 1985 |
| Grant date | Apr 19, 1988 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 1, 2005 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG07B2017/00935
- WIPO fieldControl
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A method and associated apparatus for modifying a firmware variable in an electronic postage meter, comprising the steps of storing a program for operation of the electronic postage meter, a resident memory containing firmware variables, a communication means in the stored program which allows external data to be entered in the program to change the firmware variable in accordance with the external data.
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