Method and system for delivery of mail using sensor with identifier
First Claim
1. A method for providing a mailing system, including the steps of:
- receiving, through a computer system, a mail item from a sender;
printing the mail item in visible ink in a paper document and printing substantially simultaneously in infrared ink coded data thereon, the coded data including an indication of the identity of the mail item and of the location of a plurality of reference points on the document;
receiving, in the computer system, indicating data from an optical sensing device, the indicating data including information regarding the identity of the mail item and at least one action of the sensing device in relation to the document generated by the sensing device optically reading at least some of the coded data, the coded data identifying a unique location of each of the reference points relative to the mail item, wherein each printed instance of a mail item is recorded separately in the computer system; and
generating a second mail item using said indicating data from the sensing device, wherein the sensing device is further adapted to store a sensing device identifier which is adapted to distinguish the sensing device from other sensing devices of the same type.
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Abstract
A method for providing a mailing system includes receiving, through a computer system, a mail item from a sender, and printing the mail item in a document including coded data thereon, the coded data including an indication of the identity of the mail item and at least one reference point on the document. The method also includes receiving, in the computer system, indicating data from a sensing device, the indicating data including information regarding the identity of the mail item and at least one action of the sensing device in relation to the document generated by the sensing device using at least some of the coded data; and generating a second mail item using said indicating data from the sensing device.
A mailing system includes a computer system having a sender terminal and a receiver terminal and adapted to transmit a mail item from the sender terminal to the receiver terminal. A printer device in the receiver terminal is adapted to print a mail item from the sender terminal in a document including coded data thereon, the coded data including an indication of the identity of the mail item and at least one reference point on the document. A sensing device is arranged to communicate to the computer system indicating data from the sensing device, the indicating data including information regarding the identity of the mail item and at least one action of the sensing device in relation to the document generated by the sensing device using at least some of the coded data, whereby the computer system can generate a second mail item using the indicating data from the sensing device.
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24 Claims
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1. A method for providing a mailing system, including the steps of:
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receiving, through a computer system, a mail item from a sender;
printing the mail item in visible ink in a paper document and printing substantially simultaneously in infrared ink coded data thereon, the coded data including an indication of the identity of the mail item and of the location of a plurality of reference points on the document;
receiving, in the computer system, indicating data from an optical sensing device, the indicating data including information regarding the identity of the mail item and at least one action of the sensing device in relation to the document generated by the sensing device optically reading at least some of the coded data, the coded data identifying a unique location of each of the reference points relative to the mail item, wherein each printed instance of a mail item is recorded separately in the computer system; and
generating a second mail item using said indicating data from the sensing device, wherein the sensing device is further adapted to store a sensing device identifier which is adapted to distinguish the sensing device from other sensing devices of the same type. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 23)
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13. A mailing system including:
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a computer system having a sender terminal and a receiver terminal and adapted to transmit a mail item from the sender terminal to the receiver terminal;
a printer device in the receiver terminal adapted to print a mail item in visible ink from the sender terminal in a paper document and to print substantially simultaneously in infrared ink coded data thereon, the coded data including an indication of the identity of the mail item and of the location of a plurality of reference points on the document; and
an optical sensing device arranged to communicate to the computer system indicating data from the sensing device, the indicating data including information regarding the identity of the mail item and at least one action of the sensing device in relation to the document generated by the sensing device optically reading at least some of the coded data, the coded data identifying a unique location of each of the reference points relative to the mail item;
whereby the computer system can generate a second mail item using said indicating data from the sensing device, and wherein each printed instance of a mail item is recorded separately in the computer system;
wherein the sensing device is further adapted to store a sensing device identifier which is adapted to distinguish the sensing device from other sensing devices of the same type. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24)
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