Patent ID: 7359887
Filing Date: 2008-04-15
Classification: G01G,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A shipping management computer system, said shipping management computer system programmed to: receive a first digital scale configuration input from a first user, via a first remote user client computer device of a plurality of remote client computer devices, wherein said first digital scale configuration input corresponds to a first digital scale configured with the first remote user client computer device, wherein the first digital scale configuration input comprises at least one item of scale configuration information that is selected from a group consisting of: (A) a make of the first digital scale, (B) a model of the first digital scale, and (C) a type of port through which the first digital scale communicates with the first remote user client computer device, and wherein each remote user client computer device of the plurality of remote user client computer devices accesses the shipping management computer system using browser software installed on the respective remote user client computer device over a communications network; receive an indication from the first user, via the first remote user client computer device, that a first weight of a first parcel will be input; send a first set of executable computer program instructions, according to information about the scale configuration information of the first digital scale, to the first remote user client computer device, wherein the first set of executable computer program instructions is configured to: receive, via the first remote user client computer device, the first weight measured by the first digital scale.