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SORTING OPTIMIZATION OF DOCUMENTS FOR MAILING

  • US 20090216585A1
  • Filed: 02/27/2008
  • Published: 08/27/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/27/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of optimizing mail sorting, comprising:

  • creating a postal code table comprising an order for each of a plurality of postal code ranges;

    receiving an unsorted document print stream;

    creating a document parameter table comprising information for determining boundaries of each of a plurality of documents in the unsorted print stream to be printed and for determining a location of a postal code in each document;

    in response to the unsorted document print stream and the document parameter table, constructing an index table incorporating information from the postal code table, the index table indicating the location of each document in the unsorted document print stream and its order;

    reordering the index table according to the order of each document in the unsorted document print stream;

    generating a sorted document print stream in accordance with the reordered index table, whereby the documents are arranged in the sorted document print stream in order of their respective priorities;

    printing the documents from the sorted document print stream;

    separating the printed documents into groups in accordance with the respective priorities of the printed documents; and

    sorting each group of documents in order of its respective order.

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