Method and arrangement for entering data into a postage meter machine

US5852813A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Francotyp-Postalia GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Stephan Guenther · Staufen im Breisgau, DE
• Ralf Kubatzki · Berlin, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 20, 1996
• Grant date: Dec 22, 1998
• Expiry date: Dec 20, 2016

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G07B2017/00645
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

In a method and to an arrangement for entering data into a postage meter machine, after calling stored setting data, a routine is triggered that includes a manual input routine. The arrangement includes specific actuation elements for data input for positioning, within the overall image, sub-images (image portions or constituents of the overall image). After interrogation of the actuated inputs, request data are formed if a non-available data set is needed. The formation likewise ensues when a microprocessor in the machine finds data of the clock/date module that were called but were modified due to the passage of time. A communication is then implemented, whereby the data central communicates sub-image data files and, if necessary, further data files to the postage meter machine on the basis of the communicated request data. As a result of the actuation of selected actuation elements, a corresponding sub-image positioning routine is triggered, whereby allowable change data are identified and lead to the modification of a control data file. The modification is displayed on the basis of another sub-routine as a cleartext presentation of the print image.