Patent ID: 6266575
Filing Date: 2001-07-24
Classification: G07B

Abstract:
A computer program product for managing database driven insertion and mailpiece tracking data, the computer program product having a medium with a computer program embodied thereon, the computer program product comprising:(a) a server including:(i) computer program code for populating a database with data comprising a plurality of records including instruction sets or handling individual mailpieces;(ii) computer program code for accessing the database to extract the instruction sets; and(iii) computer program code for responding to requests for the instruction sets from one or more mail processing clients; and(b) a mail processing client including:(i) computer program code for reading a key code from an individual mailpiece, the key code corresponding to a database location containing the instruction set for handling the individual mailpiece;(ii) computer program code for requesting the instruction set for handling the individual mailpiece from the server;(iii) computer program code for performing at least one mail processing task in accordance with the instruction set;(iv) computer program code for gathering mailpiece tracking data and for immediately updating the record in the database corresponding to the mailpiece being processed in real time as the at least one mail processing task is performed to indicate the status of the mailpiece in real time; and(v) computer program code for forwarding the mailpiece tracking data to the server, wherein the server can store the mailpiece tracking data in the database.