Patents by Inventor Leondo R. Phifer

Leondo R. Phifer 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).

  • Patent number: 8520888
    Abstract: The present application relates to a method, apparatus and programmable product for uniquely identifying a document. More specifically, the application allows for the identification of the document through collection of minutiae data at various points throughout the document's lifecycle without reliance upon or requirement for any unique identification characters, barcodes and/or objects that were added to the document specifically for the purpose of identification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Bell and Howell, LLC
    Inventors: Roger Spitzig, Walter S. Conard, Leondo R. Phifer
  • Patent number: 8245933
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and an article of manufacture for printing a new postal authority code on a mail piece prepared by and received from an inserter or wrapper. A barcode post-processing system receives a mail piece from an inserter and communicates with the image capture equipment. The barcode post-processing system during performs various functions. The functions can include receiving legacy address block information from the mail piece from the image capture equipment, processing the captured legacy address block information to determine one or more missing parameters of the new postal authority code to create processed data, and supplementing the captured legacy address block information data with the one or more missing parameters of the new postal authority code received from one or more data source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Bell and Howell, LLC
    Inventors: Marvin L. Isles, Mark Gerard Paul, Walter S. Conard, Leondo R. Phifer, Michael J. McIntee, Michael Boston, Roger Spitzig, Robert Richards
  • Publication number: 20100106290
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and an article of manufacture for printing a new postal authority code on a mail piece prepared by and received from an inserter or wrapper. A barcode post-processing system receives a mail piece from an inserter and communicates with the image capture equipment. The barcode post-processing system during performs various functions. The functions can include receiving legacy address block information from the mail piece from the image capture equipment, processing the captured legacy address block information to determine one or more missing parameters of the new postal authority code to create processed data, and supplementing the captured legacy address block information data with the one or more missing parameters of the new postal authority code received from one or more data source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2009
    Publication date: April 29, 2010
    Inventors: Marvin L. Isles, Mark Gerard Paul, Walter S. Conard, Leondo R. Phifer, Michael J. McIntee, Michael Boston, Roger Spitzig, Robert Richards
  • Publication number: 20100100436
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and articles of manufacture that automatically invoke one or more marketing actions directed toward a mail target are shown and described. Real time mail stream event data for one or more mail items intended for the mail target are analyzed to determine when a pre-delivery event in the processing of the one or more mail items intended for delivery to the target through a mail delivery network occurs. When the pre-delivery event corresponds one of a number of pre-assigned triggering actions a command is issued to execute a marketing action associated with the detected triggering action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2009
    Publication date: April 22, 2010
    Inventors: Leondo R. PHIFER, Walter S. Conard, Marvin L. Isles
  • Publication number: 20100027834
    Abstract: The present application relates to a method, apparatus and programmable product for uniquely identifying a document. More specifically, the application allows for the identification of the document through collection of minutiae data at various points throughout the document's lifecycle without reliance upon or requirement for any unique identification characters, barcodes and/or objects that were added to the document specifically for the purpose of identification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2008
    Publication date: February 4, 2010
    Inventors: Roger Spitzig, Walter S. Conard, Leondo R. Phifer