Patent ID: 6141654
Filing Date: 2000-10-31
Classification: G07B

Abstract:
A postage printing system, comprising:a computer in operative communication with a printer for printing a postal indicia on an envelope;a data center in operative communication with the computer, the computer being located remotely from the data center, the data center including a plurality of postage accounts and a plurality of advertiser accounts, each of the plurality of advertiser accounts including respective ad data having message data and restriction data, each of the message data representative of a message, respectively, for printing on the envelope;a control system in operative communication with the data center and the computer for:establishing a transaction session between a user of the computer and the data center, the user corresponding to one of the plurality of postage accounts;obtaining recipient address information from the user; andusing the recipient address information and the restriction data from the plurality of advertiser accounts to identify a subset of messages available for printing on the envelope.