Steven M Kaye

US Patent:

6701352, Mar 2, 2004

Filed:

Jul 11, 1997

Appl. No.:

08/891984

Inventors:

David P. Gardner - New Milford CT
Steven Kaye - Weston CT
Jeff Pierce - Norwalk CT

Assignee:

Pitney Bowes Inc. - Stamford CT

International Classification:

G06F 1516

US Classification:

709218, 709219, 709229

Abstract:

Information stored at a resource remotely located across a network is automatically imported according to pre-defined selection criteria, formatted in a form usable by a local processing resource, stored in the formatted form, and provided to the local processing resource for use by it. In one embodiment, a mailing list manager has an import module coupled to a browser. The import module receives a set of user-defined information selection criteria. The import module commands the browser to establish a network connection to a remote network resource containing desired information. When the connection is established, the browser requests information from the remote network resource according to the selection criteria. Information received from the network resource is stripped of unnecessary information, formatted for use by the mailing list manager and stored in a database maintained by the mailing list manager. In a preferred embodiment, the network resource is a Web server with a search page that is coupled to a searchable database of addresses, and the addresses are usable in a mailing list.

US Patent:

6970856, Nov 29, 2005

Filed:

Apr 17, 2000

Appl. No.:

09/550878

Inventors:

Richard W. Heiden - Huntington CT, US
Steven M. Kaye - Weston CT, US
Jeffrey D. Pierce - Norwalk CT, US

Assignee:

Pitney Bowes Inc. - Stamford CT

International Classification:

G06F017/00

US Classification:

705408

Abstract:

A postage printing system, having a computer, a data center and a control system. The computer is in operative communication with a printer for printing a postal indicia on an envelope. The data center is in operative communication with the computer which in turn is located remotely from the data center. The data center includes a plurality of user accounts and a plurality of advertiser accounts where each of the plurality of advertiser accounts includes respective ad data including message data and restriction data. The control system is in operative communication with the data center and the computer and is for: (i) establishing a transaction session between a user of the computer corresponding to one of the plurality of user accounts and the data center; (ii) obtaining recipient address information from the user; and (iii) using the recipient address information and the restriction data from the plurality of advertiser accounts to identify message data available for printing on the envelope in conjunction with the postal indicia.

US Patent:

7379205, May 27, 2008

Filed:

Dec 16, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/737006

Inventors:

Judith D. Auslander - Westport CT, US
Steven M. Kaye - Weston CT, US
Jeffrey D. Pierce - Sandy Hook CT, US

Assignee:

Pitney Bowes Inc. - Stamford CT

International Classification:

H04N 1/40
H04N 1/56

US Classification:

358 19, 358 328, 358530, 358540

Abstract:

In accordance with an embodiment of the invention, a method for embedding key information into a printed document is disclosed. The method comprises creating a first section comprising a first ink having a first color under white light; and creating a second section comprising a second different ink. The second ink comprises a fluorescent ink and has a second color under white light which is substantially the same as the first color, and the fluorescent ink has a fluorescence when subjected to fluorescent-exciting radiation. The first section and the second section are visually indiscernible from each other on the printed document in white light. Also, the second section comprises key information, which is selected or highlighted by a user during creation of the document, and the first section comprises non-selected information.

US Patent:

7533067, May 12, 2009

Filed:

Jun 30, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/172182

Inventors:

David W. Beckstrom - Milford CT, US
Steven M. Kaye - Weston CT, US
Benjamin Singer - Bridgeport CT, US

Assignee:

Pitney Bowes Inc. - Stamford CT

International Classification:

G07B 17/02
G07B 17/00

US Classification:

705402, 705401, 705406, 705408, 705410, 400621, 400578, 355 40

Abstract:

Systems and methods for providing a locally printed replaceable control panel labels for providing an economical user interface to a postage printing device using a collocated processor are described. In one configuration, a remote data center provides Units of Information of Value UIVs of distinct denominations such as postage indicia to a Virtual Stamp Dispensing Metering VSDM printer. Custom graphic images are also processed for use and stored at the collocated processor for selective transfer to the VSDM. Using the collocated PC, the user selects certain denominations to be assigned to denomination buttons on the VSDM. Similarly, the user selects certain custom images to be associated with custom image buttons on the VSDM. The system then prints a replaceable control panel button label using the VSDM printer having zones associated with each button for printing thumbnails of the custom images and denomination icons for the selected virtual stamp denominations. The user then inserts the replaceable custom control panel label in the VSDM control panel recess under the hinged control panel window.

US Patent:

20050015255, Jan 20, 2005

Filed:

Jul 18, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/622332

Inventors:

Steven Kaye - Weston CT, US
Matthew Phillips - New Milford CT, US

Assignee:

Pitney Bowes Incorporated - Stamford CT

International Classification:

G10L021/06
G10L021/00

US Classification:

704271000, 704270000, 704275000

Abstract:

A method, system, and user apparatus for helping a user, such as a disabled person, to use paper processing equipment like photocopiers and sorting machines. Accordingly, a call for help is received at a remote service bureau; a user profile is checked to find out things like user disabilities; an equipment profile of the user is checked to determine what different types and models of paper processing equipment the user has; and then interactive assistance is provided to the user from the remote service bureau such that the interactive assistance is based at least partly upon the user profile and the equipment profile.

US Patent:

20050038759, Feb 17, 2005

Filed:

Aug 12, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/639380

Inventors:

Steven Kaye - Weston CT, US
Joan Doutney - Sandy Hook CT, US
Rodney Hallgren - Norwalk CT, US
Beth Kroczaleski - New Canaan CT, US
Mark Lee - Oxford CT, US
Jacky Igval - Milford CT, US

Assignee:

Pitney Bowes Incorporated - Stamford CT

International Classification:

G06F017/60

US Classification:

705408000

Abstract:

The present invention includes methods for operating a mailing machine. A permit mail imprint is generated in the mailing machine on the basis of input signals entered into the mailing machine via a user interface of the mailing machine. At least some of the input signals may represent alphanumeric characters. For example, the permit number may be entered via a keypad or keyboard in the form of numeric characters.

US Patent:

20060136347, Jun 22, 2006

Filed:

Dec 21, 2004

Appl. No.:

11/018707

Inventors:

Jay Reichelsheimer - Shelton CT, US
David Rich - Shelton CT, US
Steven Kaye - Weston CT, US

Assignee:

Pitney Bowes Incorporated - Stamford CT

International Classification:

G06F 17/00
B41L 19/00

US Classification:

705408000, 101045000

Abstract:

Labels that may selectively provide signaling are shown. In one example, a fluorescent signaling section of a label may be perforated and may be mechanically removed from the main portion of the label to selectively provide a label that does not emit a fluorescent signal. In another example, a thermal printer is used to quench a fluorescent section of a label so that it does not emit a fluorescent signal.

US Patent:

20070138306, Jun 21, 2007

Filed:

Dec 19, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/311741

Inventors:

Andrei Obrea - Seymour CT, US
Robert Cordery - Danbury CT, US
John Desmond - Fairfield CT, US
Judith Auslander - Westport CT, US
Steven Kaye - Weston CT, US
Cindy Mangiameli - Southbury CT, US
Michael Swenson - Danbury CT, US

Assignee:

Pitney Bowes Incorporated - Stamford CT

International Classification:

G06K 19/06
G06K 7/10

US Classification:

235494000, 235491000, 235468000

Abstract:

A system for storing information including a first partial portion of a printed marking, and a second partial portion of the printed marking. The printed marking comprises first information in a first information storage format. The first partial portion is printed with a first ink. The second partial portion is intermixed with the first partial portion to form the printed marking. The second partial portion is printed with at least one second different ink. The second ink comprises a metameric ink which becomes excited when exposed to an excitation source such that the printed marking contains second different information in a second different information storage format which can be read when the printed marking is exposed to the excitation source.