Weighing System

• US 20110016174A1
• Filed: 02/16/2009
• Published: 01/20/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 02/14/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Bizerba GmbH & Company KG
• Original Assignee: Bizerba GmbH & Company KG
• Inventors: Ludwig, Gerhard, Haller, Dagmar, Weiss, Maik Juergen Frank, Off, Gunther, Grespan, Ralf, Rohm, Steffen Michael, Winkler, Robert
• Application Number:
  US12/867,422
• Publication Number:
  US 20110016174A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G01G 19/4144 for controlling weight of goods in commercial establishments, e.g. supermarket, P.O.S. systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/5015 Service provider selection
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5027 the resource being a machine, e.g. CPUs, Servers, Terminals
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising

Abstract

The invention relates to a weighing system with a Client-Server architecture, wherein the server is designed to provide services to a client on request a Client-Server communication provider being provided, wherein the services are registered and which is designed to deliver a service requested by the client. Delivery of the service is provided directly between the client and a dedicated server.

Claims

1-15. -15. (canceled)

16. A weighing system having a client-server architecture, wherein the servers (11) are configured to provide a client (15) with services on request;

wherein a client-server communications broker (13) is provided in which the services are registered and which is configured to broker a service requested by the client, wherein the provision of the requested service takes place directly between the client (15) and a server (11) determined for this purpose.

17. A weighing system in accordance with claim 16 characterized in that the client-server communications broker (13) includes a system of rules for the starting and/or terminating of services and/or for the selection of the determined server (11).

18. A weighing system in accordance with claim 17 characterized in that the requested service is offered by a plurality of servers (11) and the client-server communications broker (13) is configured to determine the server (11) providing the requested service from the plurality of servers (11) by automatic selection with reference to the system of rules and to communicate the determined server (11) to the client (15).

19. A weighing system in accordance with claim 16, characterized in that the provision of the requested service takes place in accordance with a publisher-subscriber model.

20. A weighing system in accordance with claim 16, characterized in that a service manager (17) is provided for the starting of the services which has an autostart list (19) with services to be started on the system start of the weighing system, with a registration of the service to be added into the service manager (17) preferably taking place on the installation of a service to be added.

21. A weighing system in accordance with claim 16, characterized in that services are provided whose start takes place in dependence on requirements.

22. A weighing system in accordance with claim 16, characterized in that the client-server communications broker (13) is configured to terminate a service no longer required.

23. A weighing system in accordance with claim 16, characterized in that servers subject to mandatory calibration and servers not subject to mandatory calibration are coupled to one another via feedback-free software interfaces.

24. A weighing system in accordance with claim 23, characterized in that the data corresponding to a service provided by a server subject to mandatory calibration are provided with a code or an ID.

25. A weighing system in accordance with claim 16, characterized in that it is known to the client-server communications broker (13) whether a respective client and/or service is/are a calibrated or non-calibrated client and/or service.

26. A weighing system in accordance with claim 25, characterized in that the brokering of a service subject to mandatory calibration requested by a client not subject to mandatory calibration takes place via a feedback-free interface.

27. A weighing system in accordance with claim 16, characterized in that the weighing system is made as a distributed weighing system.

28. A weighing system in accordance with claim 27, characterized in that a plurality of devices (23, 25) of the distributed weighing system each have a client-server communications broker (13) and the client-server communication brokers (13) are in communications connection with one another.

29. A weighing system in accordance with claim 16, characterized in that the client-server communications broker (13) and/or the service manager (17) has/have a processor and a memory connected to the processor and is/are connected to the client-server architecture via an interface.

30. A method for the operation of a weighing system having a client-server architecture, wherein the servers (11) provide a client (15) with services on request, wherein the services are registered with a client-server communications broker (13) which brokers a service requested by the client (15), wherein the requested service is provided directly between the client (15) and a server (11) determined for this purpose.