Kitchen internet appliance
OwnerHarry G. Parisinventor
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Abstract
A system and method for providing food-related information, including recipes, methods, hints and cooking instructions to a user via an interactive computer at a food-related location, such as a kitchen. The interactive computer includes a graphic-user interface (GUI) and one or more speakers, and the GUI is preferably a touch-screen capable of displaying interactive multimedia applications to the user, such as video cooking-step illustrations. The interactive computer alternately further includes a secondary storage device that provides food-related information to the user from a secondary storage media such as a CD-ROM or floppy disk.
Claims20
A system for providing food-related information to an interactive computer at a food-preparation location, comprising:
- an interactive computer at the food-preparation location, the interactive computer including a graphic-user interface (GUI) and one or more speakers, the GUI capable of displaying interactive multimedia applications, and the interactive computer attached to a network;
- and
- a database of food-related information in selective communication with the network,
- wherein the interactive computer selectively communicates with the database to provide food-related information to the user at the GUI of the interactive computer.
A method for providing food-related information across a network to a user of an interactive computer at a food-preparation location, the method comprising the steps of:
- providing a graphic user interface (GUI) on the interactive computer to a user at the food-preparation location;
- selectively requesting, at the GUI of the interactive computer, food-related information from a database of food-related information in communication with the network;
- transmitting food-related information from the database to the interactive computer across the network;
- and
- displaying the food-related information on the GUI of the interactive computer to the user.
An interactive computer for the selective retrieval and display of food related information as a food-preparation location, comprising:
- a console having a graphic-user interface (GUI), the GUI allowing a user to request food-related information and view such food-related information in multimedia format;
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- a central processing unit (CPU) including a CPU platform, the CPU interacting with the GUI and in selective communication with a network, and the CPU selectively retrieving food-related information from one or more databases of food-related information on the network.
A method of providing recipe information to a user at a food-preparation location, comprising the steps of:
- receiving, from a network, a list of ingredients from the user at a food preparation location, the list of ingredients inputted from an interactive computer at the food preparation location;
- comparing the inputted list of ingredients with a plurality of recipes from a recipe database;
- generating a list of recipes wherein each recipe contains ingredients which are only present in the list of ingredients inputted by the user;
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- transmitting the generated list of recipes to the interactive computer of the user across the network.
A method of providing a hyper-linked recipe to a user of an interactive computer in a food-preparation location, comprising the steps of:
- presenting on the interactive computer a recipe that includes at least one ingredient and at least one food-preparation instruction, wherein the at least one food preparation instruction includes a hyperlink;
- activating the hyperlink of the at least one food preparation instruction;
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- presenting on the interactive computer a multimedia file providing information about the at least one food preparation instruction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.