Food serving system
AssigneeTurun Yliopisto
InventorsMari Norrdal, Juhani Naskali, Ilmo Setälä, Osmo Someroja
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Abstract
According to an aspect, there is provided a food serving system that is able to link weighed food amounts to a single user regardless of the fact whether the user is separately identified or not. According to another aspect, there is provided a method comprising receiving weighing results associated with an identifier from at least one control unit associated with a plurality of food collecting points; and generating a total result associated with the identifier based on the weighing results associated with the identifier.
Claims22
A food serving system comprising:
- a plurality of food serving points configured to serve food;
- a plurality of food collecting points configured to receive a tray, each food collecting point being associated with a food serving point, a control unit, a weighing device connected to the control unit and configured to weigh a tray of a user, and a reader connected to the control unit and configured to read an identifier, different food collecting points of the plurality of food collecting points being configured to serve different food portions;
- wherein each control unit associated with the plurality of food collecting points is configured to start a weighing event when detecting a change in weight with the weighing device associated with the food collecting point, in response to the start, associate the identifier read with the reader associated with the food collecting point with the weighing event, generate at least one weighing result with the weighing device associated with the food collecting point, and stop the weighing event when detecting no weight with the weighing device associated with the food collecting point;
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- a management unit configured to receive weighing results associated with the identifier from at least one control unit associated with the plurality of food collecting points, the weighing results comprising separate weighing results of different food portions collected from different food collecting points, and generate a total result associated with the identifier based on the weighing results.
A method comprising:
- receiving weighing results associated with an identifier from at least one control unit associated with a plurality of food collecting points, the weighing results comprising separate weighing results of different food portions collected from different food collecting points of the plurality of food collecting points;
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- generating a total result associated with the identifier based on the weighing results associated with the identifier.
An apparatus comprising:
- at least one processor;
- and
- at least one memory including computer program code;
- the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the user node to at least perform:
- receiving weighing results associated with an identifier from at least one control unit associated with a plurality of food collecting points, the weighing results comprising separate weighing results of different food portions collected from different food collecting points of the plurality of food collecting points;
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- generating a total result associated with the identifier based on the weighing results associated with the identifier.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.