Cheryl L Miller

US Patent:

20060080266, Apr 13, 2006

Filed:

Jun 30, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/171536

Inventors:

Shahrom Kiani - Arlington TX, US
Cheryl Miller - Ellicott City MD, US
Eddie Kin Lui - Euless TX, US
Sekhavat Sharghi - Arlington TX, US
Michael Cykana - Mansfield TX, US

International Classification:

G06F 17/00
B65B 35/00
G07B 17/02

US Classification:

705402000, 705406000, 705408000

Abstract:

The invention provides a system and method for the automatic detection of items as originating from a specific source, e.g. client or customer, identifying specific characteristics of the items, comparing these characteristics to a database of sets of such characteristics identified with or more sources, and providing an output of items that match the characteristics. In one embodiment of the invention, a mailer detection and manifest system detects mail pieces that were sent by specific mailers using mail piece characteristics that are unique to the mail pieces of each mailers' job within a mixed mailer mail stream. This is preferably accomplished in real-time or near real-time while sorting the mail pieces after the mailers' specific mail piece characteristics have been determined.