Process for monitoring the consumptions of franking machines

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8626885
APP PUB NO 20030131103A1
SERIAL NO

10376226

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According to the process for monitoring the consumptions of a plurality of franking machines through a public communication network, at least one franking machine not being connected to this network, a link is firstly established with a management server, through the public network, by means of at least one supervision terminal independent of the off-line franking machine, in accordance with a determined protocol of communication, and data is then exchanged between the terminal and the server during which the user inputs at the supervision terminal a current invoicing index relative to the off-line franking machine and receives in return a code of authorization to frank in order to validate the subsequent frankings of the off-line franking machine.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Deslandes, Thierry Clamart, FR 2 5
Lecarpentier, Marc Antony, FR 4 21

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