Security mailing system

• US 20040260661A1
• Filed: 04/23/2004
• Published: 12/23/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 10/24/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Uship Intellectual Properties LLC (Uship Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Uship Intellectual Properties LLC (Uship Incorporated)
• Inventors: Lytle, Peter C.
• Application Number:
  US10/830,628
• Publication Number:
  US 20040260661A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/402
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0833 Tracking
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/265 Personal security, identity or safety
• CPC Class Codes: G07B 17/00362 Calculation or computing within apparatus, e.g. calculation of postage value
• CPC Class Codes: G07B 2017/00225 Vending machine or POS (Point Of Sale) apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: G07B 2017/00427 Special accounting procedures, e.g. storing special information

Abstract

A mailing system providing enhanced security for mailings processed and accepted by the mailing system. The mailing system uses sensed biometric data from the customer and/or sensed mailing type data from a secured mailing for creation of a database correlating trackable mailings to biometric data of the customer posting the mailing, placing biometric data of the customer posting a mailing onto the mailing and/or identifying suspicious mailings deserving special attention during transportation and delivery.

Claims

1-21. -21. (Cancelled).

22. A secure mailing system, comprising:

(a) means for receiving and securely retaining a mailing;

(b) means for sensing biometric data about a customer;

(c) meaning for accessing a database containing biometric data of persons prone to misconduct involving mailings;

(d) means for comparing sensed biometric data with stored data in a database; and

(e) means for providing an indication of a suspicious mailing as a function of the sensed biometric data and the data in the database;