Patent ID: 7041915
Filing Date: 2006-05-09
Classification: G01G,G06Q

Abstract:
1. In a store including a department having a counter with a customer side and a service person side, a scale system comprising: multiple scale login enabling RF identification units worn by multiple service persons; a scale located atop or above the counter and including a first display facing the service person side of the counter, a second display facing the customer side of the counter, a weighing station for receiving items to be weighed and having an associated mechanism for producing weight indicative signals when items are placed on the weighing station, a pricing control operable to establish a price for a weighed item based in part upon a weight indicative signal produced for that item, a label printer for outputting product pricing labels to be applied to food items, an RF detection system outputting an RF detection field in proximity to the scale for detecting the presence of RF identification units within the detection field, the RF detection field defining a limited detection range, wherein the scale is adapted to identify a single one of the RF identification units as being associated with a service person likely to next use the scale and to perform an automatic login for the identified RF identification unit when the service person takes action to weigh a food item and the single one of the RF identification units is moved toward the scale and into the limited detection range of the detection field, enabling multiple service persons with corresponding RF identification units to repeatedly move back and forth past the scale without causing automatic login until such an identification is made, prior to the automated login a product pricing label print function of the scale is disabled, the automated login enables at least the product pricing label print function of the scale permitting the service person to operate the scale to generate a product pricing label.