Patent ID: 6868443

Claim:
A process for monitoring a plurality of franking machines, wherein at least one of the plurality of franking machines is connected to a public communications network and at least another one of the plurality of franking machines is not connected to the public communications network, the process comprising: establishing a link between a management server on the public communications network, and a supervision terminal on the public communications network, wherein the supervision terminal is independent from the plurality of franking machines; and exchanging data between the supervision terminal and the management server over the established link, including transmitting a current invoicing index corresponding to the at least another one of the franking machine not connected to the public communications network to the management server and transmitting a code of authorization to frank for validating subsequent frankings of the at least another one of the franking machine not connected to the network to the supervision terminal and wherein the code of authorization to frank is communicated manually to the at least another one of the plurality of franking machine through a user interface, and wherein exchanging data further comprises displaying at the supervision terminal a list of the entire plurality of franking machines and, a last invoicing index validated by the management server corresponding to each of the plurality of franking machines.