Method for data input into a postage computer and arrangement for the implementation of the method

US6615196B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Francotyp-Postalia AG & Co. KG · DE

Inventors

• Werner Kampert · Hamburg, DE
• Frank Reisinger · Oranienburg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 2, 1999
• Grant date: Sep 2, 2003
• Expiry date: Sep 2, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G07B2017/00354
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

In a method and apparatus for data input into a postage computer loading and updating of rate table data in the postage computer, take place with two operations being separated from one another in time. The transmission and storage of a new postage fee schedule table in a postage computer can be implemented on demand or automatically pre-programmed at a first point in time. The actual updating of rate table data is automatically implemented at a second point in time. The method and apparatus are suitable for postage meter machines as well as for scales containing postage computers or similar devices. The apparatus contains a postage computer and a memory for service data with memory areas for data related to rate tables. The postage computer is programmed for detecting the input and for storing a load requirement, for checking the load requirement and for loading given the presence of the load requirement, for input of a conversion requirement during loading, as well as for checking the conversion requirement and conversion to the current, new rate table or transition into the operating mode.