Patent ID: 6115695
Filing Date: 2000-09-05
Classification: G06Q,G07G

Abstract:
A method for order verification, comprising the steps of:providing a computer processor having both data storage and computing capability;storing data as to a weight for each of a plurality of items offered for sale in the computer processor;inputting into the computer processor selected items that make up a customer order from the plurality of items stored in data and computing a projected total weight for the customer order;assembling the selected items to make up the customer order without input to the computer processor to individually identify the selected items during assembly;placing the customer order onto a weigh scale without individually weighing the selected items that make up the customer order; andcomparing an actual weight of the customer order as indicated by the weigh scale with the projected total weight computed by the computer processor to verify the order, while applying a maximum allowable variance for the customer order which is less than the weight of a lightest of the selected items in the customer order.