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SYSTEMS AND METHODS PROVIDING PAYMENT TRANSACTIONS
Numéro d'application |
US2015034984 |
Numéro de publication |
2015/199977 |
Statut |
Délivré - en vigueur |
Date de dépôt |
2015-06-09 |
Date de publication |
2015-12-30 |
Propriétaire |
PSI SYSTEMS, INC. (USA)
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Inventeur(s) |
Whitehouse, Harry T.
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Abrégé
Systems and methods to implement a payment platform for users using financial accounts support making payments using a (client) computing device. One aspect of the disclosure relates to systems and methods to effectuate performance of payments and/or secured payment transactions. Payments may refer to the transfer of value between users. Payment transactions may refer to transactions that form at least a part of a payment.
Classes IPC ?
- G06Q 20/40 - Autorisation, p.ex. identification du payeur ou du bénéficiaire, vérification des références du client ou du magasin; Examen et approbation des payeurs, p.ex. contrôle des lignes de crédit ou des listes négatives
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SYSTEMS AND METHODS PROVIDING PAYMENT TRANSACTIONS
Numéro d'application |
US2015034985 |
Numéro de publication |
2015/199978 |
Statut |
Délivré - en vigueur |
Date de dépôt |
2015-06-09 |
Date de publication |
2015-12-30 |
Propriétaire |
PSI SYSTEMS, INC. (USA)
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Inventeur(s) |
Whitehouse, Harry T.
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Abrégé
Systems and methods to implement a payment platform for users support making payments for postal purchases, the payments being based on postage evidencing protocols, using a (client) computing device. One aspect of the disclosure relates to systems and methods to effectuate performance of payments and/or secured payment transactions for the purpose of postal purchases. Postal purchases refer to purchases, payments, and/or transfers of value for the purpose of securing transportation, carriage, freight, and/or delivery of postcards, envelopes, letters, documents, articles, packages, mail, and/or other shipments, and/or for the purpose of securing proof of mailing, protection in transit, and delivery confirmation thereof.
Classes IPC ?
- G06Q 20/40 - Autorisation, p.ex. identification du payeur ou du bénéficiaire, vérification des références du client ou du magasin; Examen et approbation des payeurs, p.ex. contrôle des lignes de crédit ou des listes négatives
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HIGH VOLUME SERIALIZED POSTAGE AT AN AUTOMATED TELLER MACHINE OR OTHER KIOSK
Numéro d'application |
US2012068090 |
Numéro de publication |
2013/086082 |
Statut |
Délivré - en vigueur |
Date de dépôt |
2012-12-06 |
Date de publication |
2013-06-13 |
Propriétaire |
PSI SYSTEMS, INC. (USA)
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Inventeur(s) |
Whitehouse, Harry T.
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Abrégé
A system and method for retrieving a plurality of indicia are described. The method includes receiving, by a computer system associated with a postage provider a request from a user, the request including a number of the plurality of indicia, and a monetary value of each of the plurality of indicia; and authenticating the request. The method further includes verifying whether sufficient funds exist in an account of the user for the number and monetary value of the plurality of requested indicia. If the request is found authentic and the computer system determines that sufficient funds exist in the account of the user for the number and monetary value of the requested indicia, extracting the plurality of indicia. The method further includes assembling in a return message the plurality of indicia as at least one binary data message; and transmitting the message to a computer associated with the user.
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SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SECURELY DISSEMINATING AND MANAGING POSTAL RATES
Numéro d'application |
US2012054196 |
Numéro de publication |
2013/036788 |
Statut |
Délivré - en vigueur |
Date de dépôt |
2012-09-07 |
Date de publication |
2013-03-14 |
Propriétaire |
PSI SYSTEMS, INC. (USA)
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Inventeur(s) |
- Hill, George
- Hernandez, Richard
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Abrégé
The system and method described herein may securely disseminate and manage postal rate information, including discount or custom postal rates established in contractual agreements negotiated between a postal service and certain mailers, among other postal rate types. For example, the postal service may upload postal rates to a server associated with a postage vendor and optionally associate the postal rates with particular mailers. The postal service and/or postage vendor may then validate whether the postal rates were correctly uploaded, and the postage vendor may then enable applicable mailers to utilize the postal rates in response to validating that the postal rates were correctly uploaded. Additionally, the postage vendor may maintain records relating to postage transactions, which a mailer can use to support a request to negotiate the custom postal rates with the postal service and subsequently prove compliance with any terms and conditions associated therewith.
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METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COMPARING COST OF SHIPPING OPTIONS
Numéro d'application |
US2011033765 |
Numéro de publication |
2011/139630 |
Statut |
Délivré - en vigueur |
Date de dépôt |
2011-04-25 |
Date de publication |
2011-11-10 |
Propriétaire |
PSI SYSTEMS, INC. (USA)
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Inventeur(s) |
- Grala, Darius
- Blakely, Jamey
- Botti, Rick
- Perry, Richard
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Abrégé
A method and system for comparing cost of shipping options are provided. The method includes determining, with a computer system, based on shipping data input into the computer system, a first shipping cost for shipping the package using a first mail carrier; determining, with the computer system, based on the shipping data, a second shipping cost for shipping the package using a second mail carrier; calculating, with the computer system, a cost difference between the first shipping cost and the second shipping cost; outputting by the computer system the cost difference; and periodically sending the cost difference for shipping the package or a plurality of packages to an individual or organization monitoring shipping costs.
Classes IPC ?
- G06Q 10/06 - Ressources, gestion de tâches, des ressources humaines ou de projets; Planification d’entreprise ou d’organisation; Modélisation d’entreprise ou d’organisation
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SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SECURING DATA
Numéro d'application |
US2010061882 |
Numéro de publication |
2011/082082 |
Statut |
Délivré - en vigueur |
Date de dépôt |
2010-12-22 |
Date de publication |
2011-07-07 |
Propriétaire |
PSI SYSTEMS, INC. (USA)
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Inventeur(s) |
Whitehouse, Harry, T.
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Abrégé
A system and method are provided for securing data. The method includes generating a first public encryption key by a cryptographic processor associated with a first computer subsystem; sending the first public encryption key to a second computer subsystem; and receiving first encrypted data at the first computer subsystem, the first encrypted data having been encrypted by the second computer subsystem using the first public encryption key. The method further includes generating a first private encryption key by the cryptographic processor; decrypting the first encrypted data using the first private encryption key generated by the cryptographic processor to obtain a first decrypted data; and storing the first decrypted data in a memory associated with the cryptographic processor.
Classes IPC ?
- G06F 21/00 - Dispositions de sécurité pour protéger les calculateurs, leurs composants, les programmes ou les données contre une activité non autorisée
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SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING AN INTELLIGENT MAIL BARCODE
Numéro d'application |
US2010058397 |
Numéro de publication |
2011/066562 |
Statut |
Délivré - en vigueur |
Date de dépôt |
2010-11-30 |
Date de publication |
2011-06-03 |
Propriétaire |
PSI SYSTEMS, INC. (USA)
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Inventeur(s) |
Whitehouse, Harry, T.
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Abrégé
A system and method for creating an intelligent mail barcode artwork. The method includes inputting parameters including inputting a delivery point ZIP code; verifying the input parameters are within specified ranges; computing an intelligent mail barcode using the input parameters; and generating the intelligent mail barcode, the intelligent mail barcode containing and ascender bar, a descender bar, a tracker bar and a full bar.
Classes IPC ?
- G06F 17/00 - TRAITEMENT ÉLECTRIQUE DE DONNÉES NUMÉRIQUES Équipement ou méthodes de traitement de données ou de calcul numérique, spécialement adaptés à des fonctions spécifiques
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SYSTEM AND METHOD TO PROVIDE CUSTOMS HARMONIZATION, TARIFF COMPUTATIONS, AND CENTRALIZED TARIFF COLLECTION FOR INTERNATIONAL SHIPPERS
Numéro d'application |
US2010045656 |
Numéro de publication |
2011/020113 |
Statut |
Délivré - en vigueur |
Date de dépôt |
2010-08-16 |
Date de publication |
2011-02-17 |
Propriétaire |
PSI SYSTEMS, INC. (USA)
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Inventeur(s) |
Whitehouse, Harry T.
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Abrégé
The systems and methods described herein relate generally to the integration of a shipping label with a customs form to provide a single label having postage, addressing, customs, and other information for international shipping, and in particular, to managing landed cost and harmonization for international packages. In one embodiment, managing the landed cost and harmonization may comprise generating a unique self-validating postage indicium or mark in response to a request that includes a description of contents for a package onto which an international shipping label is to be placed and a destination country where the package is to be delivered. As such, the unique self-validating postage indicium or mark may indicate that landed costs for delivering the package to the destination country have been pre-paid, wherein the unique self-validating postage indicium or mark and a customs declaration form may be printed on the international shipping label.
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SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING A MAILING LABEL
Numéro d'application |
US2010043036 |
Numéro de publication |
2011/014423 |
Statut |
Délivré - en vigueur |
Date de dépôt |
2010-07-23 |
Date de publication |
2011-02-03 |
Propriétaire |
PSI Systems, Inc. (USA)
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Inventeur(s) |
Whitehouse, Harry T.
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Abrégé
A system and method of processing a mailing label through a postal service that requires an account that can be charged for generating the mailing label are described. The method includes charging or deducting a fictitiously fundable or chargeable account to enable generation of a mailing label for a mail piece. The mailing label includes a tracking indicium associated with the fictitiously fundable or chargeable account. The method further includes receiving the tracking indicium scanned from the mailing label on the mail piece when the mail piece is inducted in the mail stream or during transit of the mail piece in the mail stream, and charging or deducting funds from an actually fundable or chargeable account based upon the received scanned tracking indicium.
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PROVIDING AN EXTENSIBLE MULTINATIONAL POSTAGE SERVICE THAT DELIVERS PRINTABLE POSTAGE TO CLIENT DEVICE
Numéro d'application |
US2009067162 |
Numéro de publication |
2010/068626 |
Statut |
Délivré - en vigueur |
Date de dépôt |
2009-12-08 |
Date de publication |
2010-06-17 |
Propriétaire |
PSI Systems, Inc. (USA)
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Inventeur(s) |
- Farry, Patrick
- Hernandez, Richard
- Khechfe, Amine
- Foster, Deanna
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Abrégé
A system and method for providing an extensible multinational postage service is provided. In particular, the extensible multinational postage service may be based upon a scalable technology infrastructure capable of providing postage services for multiple national post offices and further capable of being integrated with various third-party systems. For example, the system may include, among other things, a web server configured to receive at least one postage request from a client device, wherein the postage request may include a country code that identifies a national post office. A label server coupled to the web server may be configured to assemble a printable postage image based on the specified country code and deliver the printable postage image to the client device.
Classes IPC ?
- G06F 17/00 - TRAITEMENT ÉLECTRIQUE DE DONNÉES NUMÉRIQUES Équipement ou méthodes de traitement de données ou de calcul numérique, spécialement adaptés à des fonctions spécifiques
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SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING POSTAGE INDICIA
Numéro d'application |
US2009065146 |
Numéro de publication |
2010/059822 |
Statut |
Délivré - en vigueur |
Date de dépôt |
2009-11-19 |
Date de publication |
2010-05-27 |
Propriétaire |
PSI Systems, Inc. (USA)
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Inventeur(s) |
- Novack, Meghan
- Hernandez, Richard
- Kearney, Stephen Lee
- Castaldo, Patrick Herbert
- Tuller, Aaron
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Abrégé
A method and system of providing postage indicia to a user. The method includes receiving an account number of the user at a computer server associated with a postage provider and receiving a request to print one or more postage indicia from the user at the computer server. The method further includes selectively prompting the user to enter an activation code associated with a plurality of postage labels by the computer server, wherein the prompting is waived if a predetermined parameter is satisfied; and sending, by the computer server, an authorization to print one or more postage indicia on at least one of the plurality of postage labels to the user if the activation code is valid.
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PRINTABLE POSTAGE SHEET AND METHOD OF PRINTING POSTAGE INDICIA
Numéro d'application |
US2009065155 |
Numéro de publication |
2010/059831 |
Statut |
Délivré - en vigueur |
Date de dépôt |
2009-11-19 |
Date de publication |
2010-05-27 |
Propriétaire |
PSI SYSTEMS, INC. (USA)
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Inventeur(s) |
- Novack, Meghan
- Hernandez, Richard
- Kearney, Stephen Lee
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Abrégé
A printable postage sheet includes a plurality of substantially equally sized preprinted postage labels arranged in a matrix of n rows by m columns, where n and m are integers. The plurality of preprinted postage labels are symmetrically arranged in the printable postage sheet with respect to a first axis and a second axis perpendicular to the first axis. Preprinted indicia on each of the preprinted postage labels are preprinted on generally the same location on all of the preprinted postage labels. The preprinted indicia are all oriented in a same orientation relative to the sheet. A printable area of each preprinted postage label is positioned on the label such that when indicia are printed on one or more of the preprinted postage labels, the indicia are positioned within the printable area irrespective of a right side up or upside down feeding orientation of the printable postage sheet into a printer.
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SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FUNDS PROCESSING IN POSTAGE DISTRIBUTION ENVIRONMENTS
Numéro d'application |
US2008080638 |
Numéro de publication |
2009/055385 |
Statut |
Délivré - en vigueur |
Date de dépôt |
2008-10-21 |
Date de publication |
2009-04-30 |
Propriétaire |
PSI SYSTEMS, INC. (USA)
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Inventeur(s) |
- Khechfe, Amine, G.
- Whitehouse, Harry
- Montgomery, Scott
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Abrégé
Provided herein are systems and methods for processing funds in distribution environments such as internet-based postage distribution environments. In exemplary embodiments, incentive programs are administered and managed within the system. These incentive programs can include discount programs, rebate programs and revenue sharing programs.
Classes IPC ?
- G06F 17/00 - TRAITEMENT ÉLECTRIQUE DE DONNÉES NUMÉRIQUES Équipement ou méthodes de traitement de données ou de calcul numérique, spécialement adaptés à des fonctions spécifiques
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INTEGRATED POSTAGE AND SHIPPING LABEL SYSTEM
Numéro d'application |
US2007061063 |
Numéro de publication |
2007/087607 |
Statut |
Délivré - en vigueur |
Date de dépôt |
2007-01-25 |
Date de publication |
2007-08-02 |
Propriétaire |
PSI SYSTEMS, INC. (USA)
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Inventeur(s) |
- Whitehouse, Harry T.
- Khechfe, Amine G.
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Abrégé
The present invention is generally directed to online postage services and systems that have an online connection, and more particularly to systems and methods for enabling a shipping label service to be integrated with a third party application or website. One preferred embodiment includes a computer program product having a computer-usable medium with a sequence of instructions, which when executed by a processor, causes the processor to execute a process that provides an online postage and shipping label service. The computer program product is configured to be integrated into a third party application, and the process includes the steps of enabling a user of the third party application to purchase postage, and enabling a user to generate one or more images of one or more shipping labels via the third party application.
Classes IPC ?
- G06F 17/00 - TRAITEMENT ÉLECTRIQUE DE DONNÉES NUMÉRIQUES Équipement ou méthodes de traitement de données ou de calcul numérique, spécialement adaptés à des fonctions spécifiques
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