Patent ID: 7085745
Filing Date: 2006-08-01
Classification: G06Q,G07B,H04L

Abstract:
1. A computer system for generating a frank, comprising: a franking reguest receipt module, operative to receive a request for at least one frank; wherein the request associates at least one franking criterion indicative of the relative importance as specified by a user, with regard to a given communication; wherein the franking request receipt module further comprises a communication receipt module operative to receive a communication and to determine whether the communication is franked or unfranked; a franking generation module, operatively connected to the franking request receipt module, operative to generate a frank in response to the request for at least one frank and operatively connected to the franking request receipt module; a franking attachment module operative to attach a generated frank to a received communication, the franking attachment module operatively connected to the communication receipt module and franking generation module; a frank transmission module, operatively connected to the franking generation module, operative to transmit a generated frank, the frank transmission module operatively connected to the franking generation module; whereupon transmission of the generated frank the frank is substantially contemporaneously attached to a communication or saved in a database for latter attachment to a communication; and a verification module operative to verify the authenticity of a frank affixed to a franked communication, the verification module operatively connected to the communication receipt module and further operative to receive the communication from the communication receipt module.