Patent ID: 6781078
Filing Date: 2004-08-24
Classification: B07C,G06K

Abstract:
A system for sorting mailpieces and identifying potentially life harming mailpieces in an incoming mail stream, the system comprising comprising:a component for singulating and feeding a mailpiece along a feed path of the system; a system for reading and measuring the mailpiece, the system for reading and measuring the mailpiece positioned downstream from the component for singulating and feeding the mailpiece along the feed path; and one or more database operatively connected to the system, the one or more databases comprising configuration parameter data, analysis rules, address data and task data; a control system determining whether the mailpiece is potentially life harming by comparing information read and measured from the mailpiece by the system for reading and measuring the mailpiece to one or more configuration parameters and create a mailpiece data file; and whereby the control system compares the mailpiece data file to rules stored in an analysis rule database and whereby the result of the comparison of the mailpieces data file and the rules stored in the analysis rule data base is indicative of a son destination of the mailpieces.