Patent ID: 8825741

Claim:
A method comprising: inserting displayable information into an intelligent document at a time when the intelligent document is created indicating a negative result of a first checking step, the intelligent document being created on a server comprising a database for logging a record of printing of postage indicium with embedded programs to be transmitted from the server via a network to a client and to be executed by a program execution environment of a display program to display the intelligent document on a display device of the client that can be executed upon occurrence of a precondition; inserting one or more program modules into the intelligent document configured in such a way that after the intelligent document has been opened in the display program, the one or more program modules are automatically started if the program execution environment is present; performing the first checking step to determine a presence of the program execution environment depending on whether the one or more program modules can be executed or not; performing a second checking step to determine whether the network connection between the client and the network exists; performing a third checking step to determine whether the database does not contain a record of printing of the postage indicium; converting information indicating the negative result of the first checking step into information indicating a successful execution of the first checking step by executing the program modules; providing displayable contents that include static contents and dynamic contents; inserting the dynamic contents into the intelligent document separately from the static contents; providing a button by the intelligent document for printing a displayed sample of the postage indicium clearly marked as sample as often as desired; providing the valid postage indicium in a concealed area of the intelligent document that cannot be displayed by the display program on the display device; and actuating another button for printing the valid postage indicium, which is made visible after indication of the positive result of the first, second, and third checking steps.