Patent ID: 7123376

Claim:
A method of identifying and parsing related mail piece data from a printstream for use in electronic document presentment, the printstream comprising data for a plurality of mail pieces, the mail pieces each comprising one or more document pages, the one or more document pages each comprising a bar code, the bar code comprising a match code, the match code being in common for the one or more pages corresponding a particular mail piece, the method comprising: reading the print stream in a linear manner; identifying blocks of print stream data corresponding to document pages; parsing mail piece data from the blocks of print stream data; identifying match codes within bar code data within the blocks of printstream data; comparing match codes for contiguous blocks of print stream data; if the contiguous blocks of print stream data have matching match codes, then identifying that the parsed mail piece data from the contiguous blocks belong to a same set of the mail piece data; if the contiguous blocks of print stream data do not have matching match codes, then identifying that the parsed mail piece data from the contiguous blocks belong to different sets of the mail piece data.