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Postage printing system having a digital coupon distribution system

  • US 6,408,286 B1
  • Filed: 12/30/1998
  • Issued: 06/18/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/30/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A coupon distribution system for distributing coupons, the system comprising:

  • a postage printing system including a computer in operative communication with a printer for printing a postal indicium on an envelope;

    a data center in operative communication with the computer, the computer being located remotely from the data center, the data center including a plurality of third party advertiser accounts, each of the third party advertiser accounts including respective ad data having coupon data and restriction data, each of the coupon data representative of a coupon to be printed;

    a control system in operative communication with the data center and the computer for;

    establishing a transaction session between the computer and the data center to generate the postal indicium;

    obtaining recipient address information from the user; and

    using the recipient address information and the restriction data from the plurality of advertiser accounts to identify a subset of coupons available for printing on an envelope in conjunction with the postal indicium; and

    a redemption center in operative communication with the data center and coupon redeemers for reconciling payments corresponding to redeemed coupons.

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