Mobile terminal performing method of providing recipe for making a beverage by a beverage-making apparatus and recording medium recording program performing the method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10831340-B2
Application number	US-201715806386-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 8, 2017
Priority date	Nov 10, 2016
Publication date	Nov 10, 2020
Grant date	Nov 10, 2020

Abstract

A mobile terminal includes a wireless communication unit configured to communicate with a beverage-making apparatus; a display unit; and at least one processor. The at least one processor is configured to: receive a first request for selecting a first ingredient included in a first ingredient category for making a beverage with the beverage-making apparatus; display at least one recommended second ingredient, among a plurality of second ingredients included in at least one second ingredient category, that is determined based on the selected first ingredient; receive a second request for selecting a second ingredient among the at least one recommended second ingredient that is displayed; and display, through the display unit, beverage recipe information related to a beverage-making recipe that includes the selected first ingredient and the selected second ingredient for making the beverage using the beverage-making apparatus.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A mobile terminal comprising:
a wireless communication unit configured to communicate with a beverage-making apparatus, which includes a fermentation tank and a supplier connected to the fermentation tank;
a display unit; and
at least one processor that is configured to:
receive a first request for selecting a first ingredient included in a first ingredient category among a plurality of ingredient categories for making a beverage with the beverage-making apparatus;
display at least one recommended second ingredient, among a plurality of second ingredients included in at least one second ingredient category, that is determined based on the selected first ingredient;
receive a second request for selecting a second ingredient among the at least one recommended second ingredient that is displayed; and
display, through the display unit, beverage recipe information related to a beverage-making recipe that includes the selected first ingredient and the selected second ingredient for making the beverage using the beverage-making apparatus;

wherein the first ingredient is accommodated in a beverage ingredient pack that is configured to be inserted into the fermentation tank, and
wherein the second ingredient is accommodated in a capsule that is configured to be inserted into the supplier.

2. The mobile terminal of claim 1 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:
acquire the beverage recipe information including the selected first ingredient and the selected second ingredient from at least one memory device of the mobile terminal or from at least one computer that is communicative to the mobile terminal.

3. The mobile terminal of claim 1 , wherein the at least one second ingredient category comprises a plurality of second ingredient categories other than the first ingredient category, and
wherein the at least one processor is further configured to display the at least one recommended second ingredient by:
displaying a plurality of recommended second ingredients, each recommended second ingredient included in a respective second ingredient category among the plurality of second ingredient categories, and the plurality of recommended second ingredients that are displayed being determined based on the selected first ingredient.

4. The mobile terminal of claim 1 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:
display at least one recommended third ingredient among a plurality of third ingredients included in a third ingredient category, the at least one recommended third ingredient determined based on the selected first ingredient and the selected second ingredient;
receive a request for selecting a third ingredient among the at least one recommended third ingredient that is displayed;
display at least one recommended fourth ingredient among a plurality of fourth ingredients included in a fourth ingredient category, that is determined based on the selected first ingredient, the selected second ingredient, and the selected third ingredient;
receive a request for selecting a fourth ingredient among the at least one recommended fourth ingredient that is displayed; and
display, through the display unit, the beverage recipe information related to the beverage-making recipe that further includes the selected third ingredient and the selected fourth ingredient.

5. The mobile terminal of claim 4 , wherein the first ingredient category is a wort category.

6. The mobile terminal of claim 5 , wherein the second ingredient category, the third ingredient category, and the fourth ingredient category include a yeast category, a hop category, and a flavor additive category.

7. The mobile terminal of claim 1 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:
in response to a request for selecting the displayed beverage recipe information, display additional information regarding the selected beverage recipe information,
wherein the additional information regarding the selected beverage recipe information comprises at least one of information regarding ingredients included in the beverage-making recipe corresponding to the beverage recipe information, information regarding at least one characteristic of the beverage made by the beverage-making apparatus using the beverage-making recipe, or information regarding at least one user review of the beverage made by the beverage-making apparatus using the beverage-making recipe.

8. At least one non-transitory computer-readable recording medium encoded with at least one computer program comprising instructions that, when executed, operate to cause a mobile terminal communicative with a beverage-making apparatus to perform operations comprising:
receiving a first request for selecting a first ingredient included in a first ingredient category among a plurality of ingredient categories for making a beverage with the beverage-making apparatus;
displaying at least one recommended second ingredient, among a plurality of second ingredients included in at least one second ingredient category, that is determined based on the selected first ingredient;
receiving a second request for selecting a second ingredient among the at least one recommended second ingredient that is displayed; and
displaying, through a display unit of the mobile terminal, beverage recipe information related to a beverage-making recipe that includes the selected first ingredient and the selected second ingredient for making the beverage using the beverage-making apparatus,
wherein the first ingredient is accommodated in a beverage ingredient pack that is configured to be inserted into a fermentation tank of the beverage-making apparatus,
wherein the second ingredient is accommodated in a capsule that is configured to be inserted into a supplier of the beverage-making apparatus, and
wherein the supplier is connected to the fermentation tank.

9. The computer-readable recording medium of claim 8 , wherein the operations further comprise:
acquiring the beverage recipe information including the selected first ingredient and the selected second ingredient from at least one memory device of the mobile terminal or from at least one computer that is communicative with the mobile terminal.

10. The computer-readable recording medium of claim 8 , wherein the at least one second ingredient category comprises a plurality of second ingredient categories other than the first ingredient category among the plurality of ingredient categories, and
wherein displaying the at least one recommended second ingredient comprises:
displaying a plurality of recommended second ingredients, each recommended second ingredient included in a respective second ingredient category among the plurality of second ingredient categories, and the plurality of recommended second ingredients that are displayed being determined based on the selected first ingredient.

11. The computer-readable recording medium of claim 8 , wherein the operations further comprise:
displaying at least one recommended third ingredient among a plurality of third ingredients included in a third ingredient category, the at least one recommended third ingredient matched to the selected first ingredient and the selected second ingredient;
receiving a request for selecting a third ingredient among the at least one recommended third ingredient that is displayed;
displaying at least one recommended fourth ingredient among a plurality of fourth ingredients included in a fourth ingredient category, the at least one recommended fourth ingredient matched to the selected first ingredient, the selected second ingredient, and the selected third ingredient;
receiving a request for selecting

Assignees

• Lg Electronics Inc

Inventors

• Suh Mina

Classifications

• H04M1/72415 Primary

  for remote control of appliances · CPC title

• G06Q50/12

  Hotels or restaurants · CPC title

• G06Q50/04

  Manufacturing · CPC title

• H04M2201/38

  Displays · CPC title

• H04M2201/34

  Microprocessors · CPC title