Patent ID: 8032530

Claim:
A method for generating sorting lists for sorting mailpieces or evaluating of mail volume accumulated during the sorting of mailpieces, in the method data objects that are relevant for the sorting of the mailpieces being processed, and a result of the processing of a data object in a first data processing system being transmitted to a second data processing system for further processing, the method comprising: providing in the first and second data processing system a definition list that contains associations between the data objects and an unambiguous identifier and in which attributes of the data objects are indicated, the unambiguous identifier of the data object being contained in the result of the processing of the data object; the second data processing system ascertaining the attributes of the data object from the definition list on the basis of the identifier and carries out the further processing of the result of the processing of the data object in the first data processing system on the basis of the ascertained attributes, such that the attributes of the data object required for the further processing do not have to be transmitted from the first data processing system to the second data processing system; and associating each data object with a data processing system with versioning autarchy in which the definition list with the association between the data object and the identifier is generated and which makes the definition list available to the first and second data processing system.