초록 ▼

In an electronic postage meter having a program for updating accounting memory in a printing cycle, flags are set in the accounting memory at each of a plurality of steps during the updating of the accounting registers, the flags providing an indication in a power-up cycle following a loss of power,

In an electronic postage meter having a program for updating accounting memory in a printing cycle, flags are set in the accounting memory at each of a plurality of steps during the updating of the accounting registers, the flags providing an indication in a power-up cycle following a loss of power, of the steps necessary, if any, to complete an accounting that had not been completed prior to the previous loss of operating power.

대표청구항 ▼

In an electronic postage meter including an electronic accounting system having a memory arrangement, and a data input and printer coupled to the accounting system, the memory arrangement including an accounting memory arrangement for maintaining an accounting of printed postage and a program memory

In an electronic postage meter including an electronic accounting system having a memory arrangement, and a data input and printer coupled to the accounting system, the memory arrangement including an accounting memory arrangement for maintaining an accounting of printed postage and a program memory arrangement storing a program for controlling the printing of postage and accounting of postage printed; the improvement comprising means for storing data of the setting of said printer in a first portion of said accounting memory arrangement prior to the printing of postage under the control of said program, said accounting memory arrangement having a second memory portion for storing at least one flag, said accounting memory arrangement having third and fourth portions for storing accounting data, said program comprising means for sequentially updating accounting data in said third and fourth memory portions in response to the data stored in said first memory portion during said printing of postage while distinctively setting a flag in said second memory portion at a plurality of different times during said updating of accounting in said third and fourth memory portions, and power-up means responsive to the states of said flag for completing any accounting that had not been completed in a printing cycle prior to a loss of operating power. A method for maintaining accounting of postage printed in an electronic meter having a postage input, a memory and a postage print; comprising continually storing data of the setting of said printer in a first portion of said memory, updating at least one accounting register in a plurality of steps by updating said register in a second portion of the memory while printing postage on said printer, on the basis of data stored in said first portion of memory, and subsequently updating said register in a third portion of said memory, while distinctively modifying a flag in said memory at each of the steps, whereby the flags distinctively indicate the stage of updating of accounting.