Patents Assigned to Pitney Bowes Ltd.
  • Method for converting an email message to a different format and retransmitting to a location other than recipient address information in the email message
    Patent number: 6363414
    Abstract: A invention relates to a system and method for re-transmitting an e-mail message transmitted from a sender to a recipient based upon predetermined criteria. The method including the steps of receiving in a recipients e-mail account an e-mail message transmitted from a sender and interrogating the address block of the e-mail message to determine if predetermined criteria has been met in the sender addressing information portion of the e-mail message. The e-mail message is re-transmitted to the recipient such that the recipient receives at least the messaging information content of the e-mail message at a location other than the recipients intended e-mail address if the predetermined criteria has been met.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2002
    Assignee: Pitney Bowes Ltd.
    Inventors: Timothy J. Nicholls, Robert W. Allport, Stephen Kelley, Christopher J. Capelli
  • Multi-currency postage meter
    Patent number: 5960418
    Abstract: The present invention provides an apparatus and method for converting a postage amount expressed in a first currency denomination into at least a second currency denomination and printing the postage amount expressed in a second denomination in postal indicia.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 28, 1999
    Assignee: Pitney Bowes Ltd.
    Inventors: Stephen Kelly, Timothy J Nicholls, Robert W Allport