Method and system for preparing a beverage

#Pursuant to 35 U.S.C. § 371, this application is the United States National Stage Application of International Patent Application No. PCT/EP2018/075833, filed Sep. 24, 2018, the contents of which are incorporated by reference as if set forth in their entirety herein, which claims priority to German (DE) Patent Application No. 102017216857.9, filed Sep. 22, 2017, the contents of which are incorporated by reference as if set forth in their entirety herein.

#A product dispenser comprising a user interface is known from the international patent application WO 2009/032946 A1. Inputs by a consumer can be transmitted to the product dispenser via the user interface, whereby the inputs can also relate to the selection of a product from a predetermined product selection list. The product dispenser can also comprise a reader, by means of which identification information associated with a consumer can be obtained. A beverage preparation according to individual recipe is not possible.

#A beverage dispenser is known from the international patent application WO 2014/188389 A1, which fills beverages, which are available in a keg, into a drinking vessel, whereby the beverage dispenser has a reader for a data carrier, on which identification data of a user is stored. When a user identifies himself with a data carrier of this type, the beverage dispenser fills a corresponding amount of a beverage from a keg into a drinking vessel and posts the costs for the beverage on a user account, which is likewise identified via the identification data on the data carrier. A beverage preparation according to individual recipe is not possible.

#FIG. 1 shows a system according to the invention for the preparation of beverages according to an individual recipe;

#FIG. 2 shows a further embodiment of a system according to the invention for the preparation of beverages according to an individual recipe, and

#FIG. 3 shows a flowchart for the direct dispensing of a beverage by means of a recipe.

#FIG. 1 shows a system according to the invention for the preparation of beverages according to an individual recipe. A preparation device 10 has a positioning device 13 for positioning a drinking vessel 20. The drinking vessel 20 has an individual feature 21. This individual feature 21 can be, for example, a data carrier, on which an individual data is stored so as to be capable of being read. The preparation device 10 also has a receiving device 11, with the help of which the individual feature 21 can be received. The preparation device 10 furthermore has a sending device 14 and a receiving device 15. If a drinking vessel 20 comprising an individual feature 21 is positioned into the positioning device 13 of the preparation device 10, the receiving device 11 receives the individual feature 21 of the drinking vessel 20. The individual feature 21 is sent as send data 40 via the sending device 14 to a data processing unit 30, which has a data storage unit 31. A recipe, which was linked beforehand to the individual feature 21, is searched for in the data storage unit 31 and is sent as receive data 41 to the receiving device 15 of the preparation device 10. The preparation device 10 then prepares a beverage according to the individual recipe and fills it into the drinking vessel 20. A cloud is illustrated in the illustration as data storage unit 31. The send data 40 and receive data 41 are sent via an EDP network (not illustrated), in this case for example via the Internet, between the data storage unit 31 and the preparation device 10.

#A user can create or input the individual recipe stored beforehand in the data storage unit 31, for example directly, at the preparation device 10. The creation or input of an individual recipe via a computer (not illustrated) is possible as further option, whereby the computer is likewise connected to the data storage unit 31 via an EDP network. The EDP network can also be the Internet here. However, a connection via a LAN (local area network) is likewise also possible, when the computer and the data storage unit 31 are located within this LAN. The linking of the drinking vessel 20 via the individual feature 21 thereof to the individual recipe takes place in the data storage unit 31 and can likewise be made via the preparation device 10 or another device, such as, for example, a computer connected to the data storage unit 31.

#FIG. 2 shows a further embodiment of a system according to the invention for the preparation of beverages according to an individual recipe. In this embodiment, the device having an identification feature is a mobile telephone 22. The mobile telephone 22 sends data to the preparation device 10 via a receiving device 11, for example via NFC or Bluetooth, suggested by the dash-dotted arrow. This data represents the individual feature 21.