Appeal No. 2002-2204
Application 09/187,897
designated location. The designated location is automatically
determined based on a fold configuration selected by a user of
the system.
Representative claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. A method of operating a processor based postage
metering system having a program running on the processor based
postage metering system, the program operable for controlling
creation of a document by a user giving input data to the
processor based postage metering system, the method comprising
the steps of:
selecting a fold configuration for the document from a
plurality of possible fold configurations;
identifying to the processor based postage metering system
the selected fold configuration;
creating the document within the processor based postage
metering system under control of the program;
within the processor based postage metering system
automatically determining based on the selected fold
configuration a designated location within the document for
printing an evidence of postage; and
printing the document and the evidence of postage such that
the evidence of postage is printed in the designated location of
the document.
The examiner relies on the following references:
Kara 5,606,507 Feb. 25, 1997
Cordery et al. (Cordery) 5,628,249 May 13, 1997
Hechinger et al. (Hechinger) 6,029,883 Feb. 29, 2000
(filed Nov. 26, 1997)
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