Personal mail piece tracing and tracking mechanism
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1. A mail piece tracking system including:
- A. one or more servers for linking mail piece delivery status information with user identifiers and producing listings of the delivery status information for mail pieces directed to the respective users; and
B. one or more browsers or client executables through which the respective users associated with the user identifiers access the delivery status information.
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Abstract
A system and method for linking data objects and physical objects of various kinds to an identified user is described. The system provides to the identified user information relating to the delivery status of mail pieces directed to or sent by the user, and the user then tracks and traces the mail pieces. The system further provides to the identified user information relating to continued sessions through which the user provides to a postal service system information relating to mailing labels and postage.
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47 Claims
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1. A mail piece tracking system including:
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A. one or more servers for linking mail piece delivery status information with user identifiers and producing listings of the delivery status information for mail pieces directed to the respective users; and
B. one or more browsers or client executables through which the respective users associated with the user identifiers access the delivery status information. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A method for tracking and tracing mail pieces including the steps of:
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A. associating respective users with user identifiers;
B. associating with the identified users mail pieces directed to or sent by the respective users;
C. linking mail piece delivery status information relating to the respective mail pieces to the respective user identifiers;
D. providing to a given user a listing of the respective mail pieces and the associated mail piece delivery status information that is linked to the user identifier that corresponds to the given user. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 35, 36, 37, 38, 40, 41, 42, 43)
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27. Computer-readable memory comprising computer program instructions for use in providing mail piece tracking and tracing, the instructions when executed causing:
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A. one or more servers to link mail piece delivery status information with user identifiers and produce listings of the delivery status information for mail pieces directed to the respective users; and
B. one or more browsers to provide access to the delivery status information linked to a given user identifier.
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34. A method of operating a computer system, the method including the steps of:
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A. associating a given user session with a user identifier;
B. retaining messages relating to the status of the session at a server and including in each message a message sequence number and an attribute that is associated with the user identifier; and
C. using the messages to continue the session from a point at which the session last communicated with the server, in response to the user identifier being presented at a node that communicates with the server.
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39. A method of operating a computer network including the steps of:
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A. associating a user session with a user identifier that is presented to gain access to information maintained by the network from a first node that communicates with the network;
B. retaining a queue of messages relating to the user session and associating the queue with the user identifier; and
C. in response to the user identifier being later presented at the first node or a second node that communicates over the network, continuing the user session at the first or second node by using the messages to present the session at the point at which the session last communicated with the server.
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44. A method of operating a postal service computer system, the method including the steps of:
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A. associating a given user postal mailing label session with a user identifier;
B. retaining messages relating to the status of the session at a server and including in each message a message sequence number and an attribute that is associated with the user identifier, the messages further including mailing label information provided through the session; and
C. using the messages to continue the session from a point at which the session last communicated with the server by presenting the mailing label information provided through the session, in response to the user identifier being presented at a node that communicates with the server. - View Dependent Claims (45, 46, 47)
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