Identifying one or more substitute automated customized food generation machines for generating one or more substitute customized food items

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10346899-B2
Application number	US-201414228601-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 28, 2014
Priority date	Dec 30, 2013
Publication date	Jul 9, 2019
Grant date	Jul 9, 2019

Abstract

Computationally implemented methods and systems include acquiring user preference information of a user that indicates one or more customized food preferences of the user including at least one or more ingredient integrity preferences related to integrity of one or more ingredients; determining that there is no capable automated customized food generation machine present in nearby vicinity of the user that is able to currently generate one or more customized food items in compliance with the one or more customized food preferences of the user; and identifying one or more substitute automated customized food generation machines present in the nearby vicinity of the user that are able to currently generate at least one substitute customized food item that is only in partial compliance with the one or more customized food preferences of the user. In addition to the foregoing, other aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system, comprising:
at least one processing device; and
one or more instructions which, when executed by the at least one processing device, configure the at least one processing device to perform one or more operations including at least:
acquiring at least one indication of at least one user preference, the at least one user preference related to at least one food customization preferred by at least one user;
determining that there is no capable automated customized food generation machine that is able to currently generate one or more food items in compliance with the at least one user preference;
identifying one or more substitute automated customized food generation machines that are able to currently generate at least one substitute food item that is only in partial compliance with the at least one user preference;
presenting one or more indicators of the identified one or more substitute automated customized food generation machines; and
controlling at least one food manufacturing component of the one or more substitute automated customized food generation machines to generate the at least one substitute food item that is only in partial compliance with the at least one user preference.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein acquiring at least one indication of at least one user preference, the at least one user preference related to at least one food customization preferred by at least one user comprises:
acquiring at least one indication of at least one user preference, the at least one user preference related to purity of one or more ingredients for use in generating one or more food items.

3. The system of claim 2 , wherein acquiring at least one indication of at least one user preference, the at least one user preference related to purity of one or more ingredients comprises:
acquiring at least one indication of at least one user preference, the at least one user preference including that one or more sources for the one or more ingredients were tested for presence or absence of one or more impurities.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein acquiring at least one indication of at least one user preference, the at least one user preference related to at least one food customization preferred by at least one user comprises:
acquiring at least one indication of at least one user preference, the at least one user preference including that one or more ingredients for use in generating one or more food items were obtained from at least one of one or more specified sources or one or more specified locations.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein acquiring at least one indication of at least one user preference, the at least one user preference related to at least one food customization preferred by at least one user comprises:
acquiring at least one indication of at least one user preference, the at least one user preference including that one or more ingredients for use in generating one or more food items were not obtained from at least one of one or more specified sources or one or more specified locations.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein acquiring at least one indication of at least one user preference, the at least one user preference related to at least one food customization preferred by at least one user comprises:
acquiring at least some user behavior information, the at least some user behavior information related to one or more historical behaviors of the at least one user indicative of one or more past user preferences of the at least one user.

7. The system of claim 6 , wherein acquiring at least some user behavior information, the at least some user behavior information related to one or more historical behaviors of the at least one user indicative of one or more past user preferences of the at least one user comprises:
acquiring one or more of at least some historical travel information or at least some movement information related to the at least one user.

8. The system of claim 6 , wherein acquiring at least some user behavior information, the at least some user behavior information related to one or more historical behaviors of the at least one user indicative of one or more past user preferences of the at least one user comprises:
acquiring at least some user historical usage information, the at least some user historical usage information indicative of at least some past usage of one or more automated customized food generation machines by the at least one user.

9. The system of claim 1 , wherein determining that there is no capable automated customized food generation machine that is able to currently generate one or more food items in compliance with the at least one user preference comprises:
determining that there is no capable automated customized food generation machine that is able to currently generate one or more food items in compliance with one or more ingredient preferences of the at least one user.

10. The system of claim 1 , wherein for determining that there is no capable automated customized food generation machine that is able to currently generate one or more food items in compliance with the at least one user preference comprises;
determining that there is no capable automated customized food generation machine that is able to currently generate one or more food items in compliance with one or more ingredient purity preferences of the at least one user.

11. The system of claim 10 , wherein determining that there is no capable automated customized food generation machine that is able to currently generate one or more food items in compliance with one or more ingredient purity preferences of the at least one user comprises:
determining that there is no capable automated customized food generation machine that is able to currently generate one or more food items in compliance with one or more user preferences that one or more sources for one or more ingredients for the one or more food items were tested for at least one of presence or absence of one or more impurities.

12. The system of claim 1 , wherein identifying one or more substitute automated customized food generation machines that are able to currently generate at least one substitute food item that is only in partial compliance with the at least one user preference comprises:
querying one or more nearby automated customized food generation machines in order to determine whether any one or more of the one or more nearby automated customized food generation machines have one or more appropriate ingredient supplies to be able to currently generate at least one substitute food item that is only in partial compliance with the at least one user preference.

13. The system of claim 1 , wherein identifying one or more substitute automated customized food generation machines that are able to currently generate at least one substitute food item that is only in partial compliance with the at least one user preference comprises:
identifying only those substitute automated customized food generation machines present within a mile from a current location of the at least one user.

14. The system of claim 1 , wherein identifying one or more substitute automated customized food generation machines that are able to currently generate at least one substitute food item that is only in partial compliance with the at least one user preference comprises:
identifying one or more substitute automated customized food generation machines that do not have one or more preferred ingredients, as preferred by the at least one user, in order to be able to currently generate one or more customized food items in compliance with the one

Assignees

• Elwha Llc

Inventors

• Holman Pablos
• Malamud Mark A
• Myhrvold Nathan P
• Petroski Robert C
• Tegreene Clarence T
• Whitmer Charles
• Wood Jr Lowell L
• Wood Victoria Y H
• Hyde Roderick A
• Ishikawa Muriel Y
• Kare Jordin T
• Levchin Max R
• Levien Royce A
• Lord Richard T
• Lord Robert W

Classifications

• G07F9/10

  Casings {or parts thereof}, e.g. with means for heating or cooling · CPC title

• G07F17/0064

  for processing of food articles (cooking vessels A47J37/00) · CPC title

• G07F11/70

  in which the articles are formed in the apparatus from components, blanks, or material constituents · CPC title

• G07F9/002

  Vending machines being part of a centrally controlled network of vending machines · CPC title

• G07F9/02

  Devices for alarm or indication, e.g. when empty; Advertising arrangements in coin-freed apparatus (alarms or warning devices indicating the interruption of flow to be metered G07F15/10) · CPC title