Joseph Emil Busch

US Patent:

20030074324, Apr 17, 2003

Filed:

Feb 12, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/781689

Inventors:

Roman Kresina - Oxford CT, US
Joseph Busch - Trumbull CT, US
Daniel Fearnley - Stratford CT, US

International Classification:

G06F017/60

US Classification:

705/060000

Abstract:

A system and method for providing postal services to a plurality of remote postal printing stations includes a communications facility for conducting communications between and a number of services provided by the system to the remote stations when the remote stations access the system. The services include at least one of key management, funds telemetering, software updating, postal rate updating, address cleansing, account management, and recording postal statistics. The communications facility may include an interface for Internet communication and an interface for modem communication. The interface for internet communication may include a remote access server and a plurality of application programming interfaces. A monitor may be provided for determining when any service is being accessed, to provide a signal to all other services that additional services can be provided to the remote station.