Patent ID: 6810355
Filing Date: 2004-10-26
Classification: G01G,G06Q

Abstract:
Scale with a weighing cell, which can generate weight signals representing the weight of a load each time something is weighed, and with a signal processing system which receives the weight signals and generates:weight data on the basis of the weight signals, information determined on the basis of the weight data and/or weighing data containing identification data designating the weighing operation or group of associated weighing operations in question, wherein the signal processing system has an encryption unit, by means of which encryption data can be generated on the basis of at least some of the weighing data, and in that the signal processing system can transmit a data record containing the portion of the weighing data used to generate the encryption data together with the encryption data, wherein the signal processing system is designed to receive with weighing data and the associated encryption data from an additional program and/or another scale.