Systems and method of use for dispensing liquids from a container
AssigneeBerg Liquor Systems, LLC
InventorsMichael J. Keating, Donald R. Lamond, Ronald F. Faust, Thomas E. Giles, Albert H. Dorsey
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Abstract
A method for dispensing a beverage from a bottle that includes communicating a dispensing authorization message from a control unit to at least one of a server interface carried by a beverage server and a pour spout secured to a bottle, wherein the dispensing authorization message at least one of includes or initiates a dispensing command, and wherein the pour spout responds to the dispensing command by opening a spout valve through which a beverage flows from the bottle and out of the pour spout.
Claims20
A system for dispensing a beverage from a bottle comprising:
- a control unit for communicating with at least one of a first transceiver and a second transceiver;
- a pour spout adapted to be attached to a bottle and having the first transceiver for wireless communication, a first controller connected to the first transceiver, and a valve operated by the first controller to control flow of a beverage from the bottle through the spout, wherein the pour spout is controlled by messages received from the control unit, and wherein the pour spout opens to allow a pour in response to a first message received by the first transceiver,
- the second transceiver for communicating the first message, wherein the first message is communicated to the pour spout either directly from the control unit as a pour command, or relayed by a server interface as a pour command;
- and wherein the control unit is in communication with a point of sale unit.
A method for dispensing a beverage from a bottle comprising:
- receiving a beverage dispensing indication;
- in response to receiving the beverage dispensing indication, communicating a spout identifier from a pour spout attached to a bottle containing a beverage to be dispensed, to at least one of a control unit and a server interface;
- communicating from at least one of the pour spout and the server interface a request message to the control unit;
- the control unit responding to the request message by communicating to at least one of the pour spout and the server interface, authorization or denial for beverage dispensing;
- communicating a dispensing command to the pour spout if authorization is communicated;
- the pour spout responding to the dispensing command by opening a valve in the pour spout to allow the beverage to flow from the bottle;
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- communicating to a point of sale unit the beverage dispensed.
A method for dispensing beverages in bottles comprising:
- selecting a cocktail via a user input device;
- in response to the cocktail that was selected, obtaining a designation of a plurality of liquor ingredients from an electronic memory in the user input device and communicating the plurality of liquor ingredients to a control unit;
- communicating the designation of the plurality of liquor ingredients from the control unit to a user interface;
- sequentially for each of the plurality of liquor ingredients, the user interface communicating a dispensing command to a given pour spout attached to a bottle containing a respective liquor ingredient of the plurality of liquor ingredients;
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- the given pour spout responding to the dispensing command by opening a valve through which the respective liquor ingredient flows from the bottle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.