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US 10,497,052 B2Granted
Method and apparatus for associating menu information
AssigneeCfph, LLC
InventorHoward W. Lutnick
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Abstract
Methods and Apparatus related to generating representations of information. The information may include menu information for merchants such as restaurants. Referring to menus, methods may include receiving potential information for a first menu, and receiving indications of associations of the information with the first menu and/or any number of additional menus. Information and/or associations may later be updated by a desired set of users.
Claims16
An apparatus comprising:
- a computing device;
- and
- a non-transitory storage medium having instructions stored thereon, that when executed by the computing device, cause the apparatus to:
- generate first menu content for a first merchant based on menu information received from the first merchant;
- in response to receiving the menu information, associate the first menu content with a first menu of items for sale by the first merchant;
- transmit a first representation of the first menu that includes the first menu content over an electronic communication network to a first computing device of a first user of a referral or delivery service;
- receive, over the electronic communication network, from the first computing device of the first user of the referral or delivery service, an indication that the first menu content should be associated with a second menu of a second merchant;
- in response to receiving the indication, associate the first menu content with the second menu;
- receive an edit to the first menu content from a second computing device of a second user;
- in response to receiving the edit, adjust the first menu content to include the edit in the first menu and maintain the first menu content without the edit in the second menu;
- transmit a second representation of the first menu that includes the first menu content and the edit over the electronic communication network to a third computing device of a third user of the referral or delivery service after receiving the second menu edit;
- receive, from the third computing device over the electronic communication network, a selection by the third user of items for delivery from the first merchant;
- and
- facilitate delivery of the items from the first merchant to the third user.
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A method comprising:
- generating, by a computing system of a referral or delivery service, first menu content for a first merchant based on menu information received from the first merchant;
- in response to receiving the menu information, associating, by the computing device, the first menu content with a first menu of items for sale by the first merchant;
- transmitting, by the computing device, a first representation of the first menu that includes the first menu content over an electronic communication network to a first computing device of a first user of a referral or delivery service;
- receiving, by the computing device, over the electronic communication network, from the first computing device of the first user of the referral or delivery service, an indication that the first menu content should be associated with a second menu of a second merchant;
- in response to receiving the indication, associating, by the computing device, the first menu content with the second menu;
- receiving, by the computing device, an edit to the first menu content from a second computing device of a second user;
- in response to receiving the edit, adjusting, by the computing device, the first menu content to include the edit in the first menu and maintain the first menu content without the edit in the second menu;
- transmitting, by the computing device, a second representation of the first menu that includes the first menu content and the edit over the electronic communication network to a third computing device of a third user of the referral or delivery service after receiving the second menu edit;
- receiving, by the computing device from the third computing device over the electronic communication network, a selection by the third user of items for delivery from the first merchant;
- and
- facilitating, by the computing device, delivery of the items from the first merchant to the third user.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.