Patent Document ID: 20160123794
Application ID: 14532718
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A computerized method of monitoring and notifying one or more remotely located interested parties of the rezero status of a weighing apparatus, said method comprising: providing a computerized local monitoring system to monitor a rezero status of at least one weighing apparatus of interest and to transmit weighing apparatus rezero data; placing an external system in communication with the local monitoring system, the external system including a remote server configured at least to transmit an electronic notification to a remotely located interested party based on data received from the local monitoring system; analyzing, using programming associated with the local monitoring system, the rezero data received from the at least one weighing apparatus of interest to identify a status condition selected from the group consisting of a rezero operation that has failed to execute within an allotted period of time, a rezero operation that has been interrupted some predetermined number of times, an exceeded rezero threshold, and a predicted rezero fault; and using the remote server, transmitting an electronic notification to a remotely located interested party when such a status condition is communicated to the remote server by the local monitoring system.