Registers – Systems controlled by data bearing records – Time analysis
Patent
1992-05-26
1993-09-14
Pitts, Harold
Registers
Systems controlled by data bearing records
Time analysis
235379, 235380, 235383, G06K 710
Patent
active
052451631
ABSTRACT:
A queue monitoring and/or control system for monitoring and/or controlling a queue of persons waiting for service by a plurality of clerks. A card dispenser dispenses sequentially-numbered cards to persons as each joins the end of the queue; a card reader for each clerk for reading the card number when received by the clerk from each person as each reaches a clerk at the beginning of the queue. A real time clock for indicates the queue joining time for each card dispensed by the dispenser to a person when joining the end of the queue, and the clerk reaching time for each card read by the card readers as each person reaches a clerk at the beginning of the queue. A data processor processes the above data according to permissible queue parameters.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4621326 (1986-11-01), Rawlins
patent: 4700295 (1987-10-01), Katsof et al.
patent: 4833312 (1989-05-01), Minematsu
Barish Benjamin J.
Pitts Harold
The Taylor Institute for Industrial Management Science Ltd.
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