Patents by Inventor Fabien Chatté
Fabien Chatté has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 9058700Abstract: A method of franking a mailpiece that is to be put into a letter box associated with a mail-receiving office, including, in a portable communications device of a sender of the mailpiece, firstly an operation of inputting an identifier of said letter box, and secondly an operation of transmitting the identifier together with other postal data, including at least one franking amount and an unique identification code relating to the mailpiece, to a server of a franking service having the function of issuing a franking authorization for the sender.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2008Date of Patent: June 16, 2015Assignee: NEOPOST TECHNOLOGIESInventor: Fabien Chatté
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Patent number: 9031879Abstract: A method of generating a digital signature at a postage meter, in which method a postal imprint is printed on a mail item once said mail item has been weighed and once its postage amount has been determined, said postal imprint being associated with a digital signature generated by means of a secret key on the basis of constant data and variable data, said variable data comprising only a fingerprint code extracted upstream of the weighing from a three-dimensional structure of the fibers of the mail item.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2007Date of Patent: May 12, 2015Assignee: Neopost TechnologiesInventor: Fabien Chatte
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Patent number: 8418925Abstract: A method of processing a mailpiece that bears identifiers for postal use and identifiers other than for postal use, in which method said identifiers other than for postal use are printed on the mailpiece prior to it being fed into a franking machine suitable for printing a postal imprint on the mailpiece, wherein the identifiers other than for postal use are printed in an ink that is erased after the process of printing said postal imprint.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2009Date of Patent: April 16, 2013Assignee: Neopost TechnologiesInventors: Fabien Chatte, Romain Pillard
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Patent number: 8341093Abstract: A method of performing non-secure franking by means of a communications terminal comprising means for communicating with a franking service provider's server, a non-secure memory for recording identification numbers and associated postage amounts received in the franking service provider's server. The communications terminal can further comprise print command means for instructing a standard printer to print one of the identification numbers corresponding to the desired postage amount and extracted from the non-secure memory on a mail item to be sent.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2007Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Neopost TechnologiesInventor: Fabien Chatte
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Patent number: 8220836Abstract: In a reply card enabling a recipient of said reply card to answer at least one request made by a sender of said reply card by taking a determined physical action on at least one identified zone of said reply card, provision is made for at least one identified zone of said reply card to be provided with a succession of signs printed with a conductive ink, and for a determined physical action to be taken that consists in perforating at least one of said identified zones so as to detach at least a portion of said succession of signs printed with a conductive ink from the reply card, the effect of said detaching being to prevent a radio-frequency read device possessed by the sender from receiving the answer associated with said succession of signs printed with a conductive ink and detached by the recipient.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2009Date of Patent: July 17, 2012Assignee: Neopost TechnologiesInventor: Fabien Chatte
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Patent number: 8109067Abstract: In a mail production system comprising at least one user workstation on which a document is generated, printer means for printing the pages of said document, and folding and insertion means for folding the pages once they have been printed and for inserting them into an envelope, a method is provided in which, in order to control insertion into the envelope of each of the pages of the document, a unique marking code is generated, for each page of said document, on the basis of a predetermined combination of characters on each of said pages.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2008Date of Patent: February 7, 2012Assignee: Neopost TechnologiesInventor: Fabien Chatte
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Patent number: 8083229Abstract: In a mailpiece feed device comprising a mailpiece-receiving deck through which motor-driven conveyor members pass and on which a stack of mailpieces stands, and a monitoring and control circuit for actuating said motor-driven members at a determined drive speed in order to enable said mailpieces to be extracted one-by-one downstream, there is provided a method of controlling said motor-driven conveyor members wherein the drive speed of said motor-driven conveyor members varies as a function of the weight of said stack of mailpieces standing on said mailpiece-receiving deck.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2009Date of Patent: December 27, 2011Assignee: Neopost TechnologiesInventors: Fabien Chatte, Romain Pillard
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Patent number: 8060445Abstract: In a mail franking system including a central secure metering device (PSD 20) connected to a remote credit reloading server (26) and a plurality of local franking management modules (22-1 to 22-N) each including a local secure metering device (28-1 to 28-N) and connected to said central secure metering device via a user's local area network (LAN), there is provided a method wherein a franking session is opened, each of the local franking management modules books a predetermined franking value from a central secure metering device so as to perform secure frankings up to the limit of this value and at the end of session each of these modules transmits its consumed franking value to the central device which is then debited by an overall franking value equal to the sum of the franking values consumed by each of the local modules.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2006Date of Patent: November 15, 2011Assignee: Neopost TechnologiesInventors: Fabien Chatte, Marek Krasuski
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Patent number: 8027934Abstract: A system of paying for a service that is delivered to a user by a provider of said service, the system including print means for printing out a docket issued by the service provider and bearing the amount to be paid for the requested service, and franking means for printing a postage amount equal to said amount to be paid on said docket or on a label affixed next to said docket.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2007Date of Patent: September 27, 2011Assignee: NEOPOST TechnologiesInventors: Fabien Chatte, Dennis T. Gilham
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Publication number: 20110113478Abstract: A method of securing franking, said method comprising the following operations: a user writing a personal secret code by hand on a mailpiece bearing a unique identification number; a portable communications device acquiring said personal secret code and said unique identification number that are borne by said mailpiece; sending said secret code and said unique identification number as acquired by said portable communications device to a remote computer server; and comparing said personal secret code as received with a personal secret code of said user pre-recorded in said remote computer server.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2010Publication date: May 12, 2011Applicant: NEOPOST TECHNOLOGIESInventor: Fabien CHATTE
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Publication number: 20100156030Abstract: In a mailpiece feed device comprising a mailpiece-receiving deck through which motor-driven conveyor members pass and on which a stack of mailpieces stands, and a monitoring and control circuit for actuating said motor-driven members at a determined drive speed in order to enable said mailpieces to be extracted one-by-one downstream, there is provided a method of controlling said motor-driven conveyor members wherein the drive speed of said motor-driven conveyor members varies as a function of the weight of said stack of mailpieces standing on said mailpiece-receiving deck.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2009Publication date: June 24, 2010Applicant: NEOPOST TECHNOLOGIESInventors: Fabien CHATTE, Romain Pillard
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Publication number: 20100133803Abstract: In a reply card enabling a recipient of said reply card to answer at least one request made by a sender of said reply card by taking a determined physical action on at least one identified zone of said reply card, provision is made for at least one identified zone of said reply card to be provided with a succession of signs printed with a conductive ink, and for a determined physical action to be taken that consists in perforating at least one of said identified zones so as to detach at least a portion of said succession of signs printed with a conductive ink from the reply card, the effect of said detaching being to prevent a radio-frequency read device possessed by the sender from receiving the answer associated with said succession of signs printed with a conductive ink and detached by the recipient.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2009Publication date: June 3, 2010Applicant: NEOPOST TECHNOLOGIESInventor: Fabien CHATTE
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Publication number: 20100112205Abstract: A method of processing a mailpiece that bears identifiers for postal use and identifiers other than for postal use, in which method said identifiers other than for postal use are printed on the mailpiece prior to it being fed into a franking machine suitable for printing a postal imprint on the mailpiece, wherein the identifiers other than for postal use are printed in an ink that is erased after the process of printing said postal imprint.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2009Publication date: May 6, 2010Applicant: NEOPOST TECHNOLOGIESInventors: Fabien CHATTE, Romain PILLARD
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Patent number: 7689519Abstract: Method of delivering a franking service including the following operations: connection via a communications network of a user's communications device (10, 12) with a server system (18) operated by a franking services provider, entry via the communications device of a unique identification number carried by a mail item (14) to be sent, selection by the user of a franking service from the various franking services offered by the server system and entry of postal information in relation to the selected service, determination by the server system on the basis of this information of the cost of the selected franking service and communication of this cost to the user, payment by the user for the selected franking service, and depositing of the mail item in a post box (16).Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2006Date of Patent: March 30, 2010Assignee: NEOPOST TechnologiesInventor: Fabien Chatte
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Publication number: 20090145082Abstract: In a mail production system comprising at least one user workstation on which a document is generated, printer means for printing the pages of said document, and folding and insertion means for folding the pages once they have been printed and for inserting them into an envelope, a method is provided in which, in order to control insertion into the envelope of each of the pages of the document, a unique marking code is generated, for each page of said document, on the basis of a predetermined combination of characters on each of said pages.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2008Publication date: June 11, 2009Applicant: NEOPOST TECHNOLOGIESInventor: Fabien CHATTE
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Publication number: 20090106039Abstract: A method of franking a mailpiece that is to be put into a letter box associated with a mail-receiving office, including, in a portable communications device of a sender of the mailpiece, firstly an operation of inputting an identifier of said letter box, and secondly an operation of transmitting the identifier together with other postal data, including at least one franking amount and an unique identification code relating to the mailpiece, to a server of a franking service having the function of issuing a franking authorization for the sender.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2008Publication date: April 23, 2009Applicant: NEOPOST TECHNOLOGIESInventor: Fabien CHATTE
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Publication number: 20080303636Abstract: A secure system for tracking goods loaded on a delivery vehicle having a driver's cab and at least one container, said driver's cab being provided with a first RFID transponder disposed on any wall of said cab, and each of the containers is provided with at least two RFID transponders, one of which is disposed on any wall of said container and the other of which is disposed on each of the delivery doors of said container, each of said RFID transponders being designed to co-operate with a RFID reader/interrogator integrated into a mobile telephone of the driver of the vehicle, said mobile telephone being in communication with a management server via a mobile communications network.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2008Publication date: December 11, 2008Applicants: NEOPOST TECHNOLOGIES, French Limited Company, NBG ID, French Simplified Joint Stock CompanyInventors: Fabien CHATTE, Bruno Fabre, Dennis Gilham, Guy Venture
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Publication number: 20080161967Abstract: A mail item designed to be franked by a franking machine, in which mail item a slogan zone is constituted by an OLED screen having a control unit that includes memory means for storing various images designed to be displayed on said OLED screen, in still or animated manner, by a control module, said control unit being adapted to be controlled remotely by an external control module via a communications module.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2007Publication date: July 3, 2008Applicant: NEOPOST TECHNOLOGIESInventor: Fabien CHATTE
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Publication number: 20080103979Abstract: A method of generating a digital signature at a postage meter, in which method a postal imprint is printed on a mail item once said mail item has been weighed and once its postage amount has been determined, said postal imprint being associated with a digital signature generated by means of a secret key on the basis of constant data and variable data, said variable data comprising only a fingerprint code extracted upstream of the weighing from a three-dimensional structure of the fibers of the mail item.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2007Publication date: May 1, 2008Applicant: NEOPOST TECHNOLOGIESInventor: Fabien CHATTE
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Publication number: 20080075294Abstract: In a mail handling machine comprising a succession of modules disposed along a conveyor path for conveying mail items from a feed module for feeding in mail items to a collection module for collecting mail items that have been franked by passing through a franking module for printing postage imprints on said mail items, there is provided at least one sound acquisition means for picking up noise emitted inside one of said modules, and sound generation means for generating counter-noise in said module so as to proceed with canceling said emitted noise and thus reducing the overall noise level of the mail handling machine.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2007Publication date: March 27, 2008Applicant: NEOPOST TECHNOLOGIES, French Limited CompanyInventor: Fabien CHATTE