Food Product Scale and Related In-Store Random Weight Item Transaction System with Rfid Capabilities
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1. In a store, a computerized random weight items transaction system comprising:
- a scale configured for communication with a computerized checkout system, the scale including a weighing station for receiving items to be weighed and having an associated mechanism for producing weight indicative signals when items are placed on the weighing station, a pricing control operable to establish a price for a weighed item based in part upon a weight indicative signal produced for the weighed item, a supply of labels and a supply of label RFID tags, a label RF unit positioned for reading label RFID tags, wherein the scale is adapted to output a label so as to enable application of an associated label RFID tag to the weighed item, in connection with the label that is output the label RF unit detects an identification number stored in the associated label RFID tag, the identification number is linked to transaction data including at least total price and weighed item identity, and the linked identification number and transaction data is made available to the computerized checkout system, the computerized checkout system includes at least one RF unit for detecting the identification number of the label RFID tag when the weighed item is presented at checkout, and the computerized checkout system accesses the transaction data linked to the identification number for adding the total price to a checkout transaction total.
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Abstract
A random weight item transaction system include a scale with label RIFD tag functionality, service person RFID tag functionality and customer RFID tag functionality. A slicer in proximity to the scale may include service person and bulk food product RFID functionalities. The scale may make weigh transaction data available to a computerized checkout system via a communications link or via writing the information to the label RFID tag.
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32 Claims
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1. In a store, a computerized random weight items transaction system comprising:
a scale configured for communication with a computerized checkout system, the scale including a weighing station for receiving items to be weighed and having an associated mechanism for producing weight indicative signals when items are placed on the weighing station, a pricing control operable to establish a price for a weighed item based in part upon a weight indicative signal produced for the weighed item, a supply of labels and a supply of label RFID tags, a label RF unit positioned for reading label RFID tags, wherein the scale is adapted to output a label so as to enable application of an associated label RFID tag to the weighed item, in connection with the label that is output the label RF unit detects an identification number stored in the associated label RFID tag, the identification number is linked to transaction data including at least total price and weighed item identity, and the linked identification number and transaction data is made available to the computerized checkout system, the computerized checkout system includes at least one RF unit for detecting the identification number of the label RFID tag when the weighed item is presented at checkout, and the computerized checkout system accesses the transaction data linked to the identification number for adding the total price to a checkout transaction total. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. In a store, a computerized random weight items transaction system comprising:
a scale configured for communication with a computerized checkout system, the scale including a weighing station for receiving items to be weighed and having an associated mechanism for producing weight indicative signals when items are placed on the weighing station, a pricing control operable to establish a price for a weighed item based in part upon a weight indicative signal produced for the weighed item, a supply of labels and a supply of label RFID tags, a label RF unit along a label path for writing information to label RFID tags, wherein the scale is adapted to output a label so as to enable application of an associated label RFID tag to the weighed item, in connection with the label that is output, the label RF unit writes an identification number to the label RFID tag, the identification number is linked to transaction data including at least total price and weighed item identity, and the linked identification number and transaction data is made available to the computerized checkout system, the computerized checkout system includes at least one RF unit for detecting the identification number of the label RFID tag when the weighed item is presented at checkout, and the computerized checkout system accesses the transaction data linked to the identification number for adding the total price to a checkout transaction total. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. In a store, a computerized random weight items transaction system comprising:
a scale configured for communication with a computerized checkout system, the scale including a weighing station for receiving items to be weighed and having an associated mechanism for producing weight indicative signals when items are placed on the weighing station, a pricing control operable to establish a price for a weighed item based in part upon a weight indicative signal produced for the weighed item, a supply of labels and a supply of label RFID tags, a label RF unit along a label path for writing information to label RFID tags, wherein the scale is adapted to output a label so as to enable application of an associated label RFID tag to the weighed item, in connection with the label that is output, the label RF unit writes transaction data including at least total price and weighed item identity to the label RFID tag, the computerized checkout system includes at least one RF unit for reading the transaction data from the label RFID tag when the weighed item is presented at checkout, and the computerized checkout system adds the read total price to a checkout transaction total. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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26. A food product scale comprising:
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a weighing station for receiving a food item to be weighed; a label printer positioned along a label path for printing indicia on labels; a label RF unit positioned for reading and/or writing label RFID tags; a controller operatively connected with each of the weighing station, the label printer and the label RF unit, the controller operable to establish a price for a weighed item based in part upon a weight indicative signal produced by the weighing station; wherein in connection with weighing and pricing an item the scale is adapted to output a label with an associated label RFID tag having an identification number, the label RF unit detects the identification number stored in the associated label RFID tag or writes the identification number to the associated label RFID tag, the controller links the identification number to transaction data including at least total price and item identity. - View Dependent Claims (27, 28, 29)
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30. In a store, a computerized random weight items transaction system comprising:
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a weighing station for receiving items to be weighed and having an associated mechanism for producing weight indicative signals when items are placed on the weighing station; a pricing control operable to establish a price for a weighed item based in part upon a weight indicative signal produced for the weighed item a supply of labels and a supply of label RFID tags, a label RF unit positioned for reading and/or writing label RFID tags; wherein a label is output so as to enable application of an associated label RFID tag, having an identification number, to the weighed item, in connection with the label that is output the label RF unit detects the identification number stored in the associated label RFID tag or writes the identification number to the associated label RFID tag, the identification number is linked to transaction data including at least total price and weighed item identity, and the linked identification number and transaction data is made available to a computerized checkout system, the computerized checkout system includes at least one RF unit for detecting the identification number of the label RFID tag when the weighed item is presented at checkout, and the computerized checkout system accesses the transaction data linked to the identification number for adding the total price to a checkout transaction total. - View Dependent Claims (31, 32)
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