Patent · US Expired

Optically readable mail system with general and receiver specific information

US5018072A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateMar 13, 1990
Grant dateMay 21, 1991
Priority date
Expiry dateMar 13, 2010

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB07C1/00
  • WIPO fieldChemical engineering
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

A mail system includes a selector selectively composing character information, image information and/or audio information; a printer printing the composite information as optically readable bit information in a plurality of recording mediums; a first storage device storing specific information for specifying the receivers of said recording media; a second storage device storing the required items of said receivers; a third storage area storing the information related to the required items of said receivers; a selector selecting information corresponding to the required items of said receivers from the information related to the required items of said receivers; a recorder recording the selected information corresponding to the required items of said receivers as optically readable bit information in at least one of said recording media; and a recorder recording the specific information specifying said receivers in at least one of said recording media.

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