Method of sorting mailpieces using a sorting frame, with a virtual stack of mailpiece images being displayed
US9321083B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | May 15, 2014 |
| Grant date | Apr 26, 2016 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 31, 2034 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
- CPC primaryB07C3/20
- WIPO fieldChemical engineering
- WIPO sectorChemistry
Abstract
A method of sorting mailpieces into a sorting frame having sorting slots where, in a sorting pass, and in a memory of a monitoring/control unit with a display screen, recording digital images of mailpieces to be sorted, each image including a delivery address; on the basis of each digital image of a mailpiece, generating a sorting code identifying a sorting slot of the sorting frame, and, in the memory, organizing the mailpieces into virtual stacks of images, each virtual stack of images corresponding to a stack of mailpieces placed in a stack in a sorting slot of the sorting frame and the images in each virtual stack of images being sequenced in the same order as the mailpieces in said stack of mailpieces; and in a subsequent sorting pass, displaying on the screen the images and a sorting code of said mailpieces organized in a virtual stack.
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