Method for data input into a postage meter machine, arrangement for franking postal matter and for producing a franking design respectively allocated to a cost center

US5602743A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Francotyp-Postalia GmbH · DE

Inventor

• Claus Freytag · Berlin, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 18, 1995
• Grant date: Feb 11, 1997
• Expiry date: May 18, 2015

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G07B2017/00701
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A method for data entry into a postage meter machine before the initiation of a selected printer function, an arrangement for franking postal matter and for producing a franking image respectively allocated to a cost center include automatic modification of the most recent status of stored data contents in a postage meter machine for the setting thereof within a time window following the switch-on on the basis of a first data carrier and/or automatic entry of an accounting number for the cost center of the user and/or of a printer function or the number of a printer function into a memory area of a memory of the postage meter machine on the basis of a further data carrier. The data carriers may be chip cards. Data for the chip card number, for the cost center number and for the design number are read out an the unprotected memory area or, after automatic password rendering, from the protected memory area of the chip card by the postage meter machine and are used in the postage meter machine for setting the cost center and the associated advertising design.