Patent ID: 7349855
Filing Date: 2008-03-25
Classification: G07B

Abstract:
1. A method for statistically following up postal products for an electronic franking system, the method comprising: recording franking information of each of a plurality of franked postal products in a saved part of a random access memory (RAM) of the franking system, wherein franking information of each postal product is successively recorded in a separate memory location of the RAM upon being franked by the franking system, said RAM having a maximum recording capacity; and determining whether a postal product not yet recorded in the RAM belongs to at least one predetermined postal service category, wherein franking information of the postal product not yet recorded is prevented from being recorded in a memory location of the RAM storing a previously recorded postal product when the maximum recording capacity of the RAM has been attained unless the postal product not yet recorded is determined to belong to the at least one predetermined postal service category in which case the not yet recorded franking information is recorded in the RAM in place of previously recorded franking information.