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Mail piece bar code having a data content identifier

  • US 5,602,382 A
  • Filed: 10/31/1994
  • Issued: 02/11/1997
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/31/1994
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A mail piece bearing a bar codeword containing information for the processing of the mail piece, the bar codeword having a plurality of parallel bars each of which has a state selected from a plurality of possible states, the bar codeword comprising a start field followed by a data content identifier (DCI) field specifying the structure of the codeword followed by at least one data field, followed by a Reed-Solomon parity field, followed by a stop field.

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