Patent ID: 8442878

Claim:
A method carried out in a stock monitoring system, comprising: providing a stock monitoring system including: a housing, one or more doors disposed in or on the housing, at least one or more container(s) for stock items, located within the housing, each of the at least one of the one or more container(s) having associated therewith a weight sensor for providing a weight signal(s) indicative of the current weight of each of the at least one or more container(s), the at least one or more container(s) including a plurality of bins or compartments and the weight sensor is associated with the plurality of bins and/or compartments and provides a weight signal indicative of the combined weight of the plurality of bins or compartments, and control circuitry, coupled for communication with the weight sensor(s); receiving one or more weight signals; determining, for the at least one of the one or more container(s), the number of stock items removed from the container(s) by the user, from the weight signal(s) indicative of the combined weight of the plurality of bins or compartments.