Estimating consumer alcohol intake using non-invasive technology
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsLydia Mai Do, Pamela Ann Nesbitt, Lisa Seacat Deluca
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Abstract
One or more alcohol inputs are received at the interactive system. Each of the alcohol inputs corresponds to an alcoholic beverage to be consumed by a consumer. The system calculates an estimated blood-alcohol level of the consumer based on the alcohol inputs. The estimated blood-alcohol level is compared with one or more alcohol impairment limits retrieved from an electronic data store. If the comparison reveals that the consumer might be impaired, an alert is automatically signaled.
Claims20
A computer-implemented method comprising:
- receiving one or more alcohol inputs at an interactive system, where each of the alcohol inputs corresponds to an alcoholic beverage to be consumed by a consumer;
- calculating an estimated blood-alcohol level of the consumer based on the one or more alcohol inputs;
- comparing the estimated blood-alcohol level with one or more alcohol impairment limits retrieved from an electronic data store;
- and
- automatically signaling an alert in response to the comparison revealing that the estimated blood-alcohol level exceeds one of the alcohol impairment limits.
An information handling system that is an interactive system used to order alcoholic beverages, the information handling system comprising:
- one or more processors;
- a memory accessible by at least one of the processors;
- a display accessible by at least one of the processors;
- a surface area included in the interactive system where items are placed;
- one or more nonvolatile storage devices accessible by at least one of the processors;
- one or more sensors accessible by at least one of the processors, wherein the sensors identify the items placed on the surface area and that identify actions performed by a consumer in proximity to the surface area;
- a data store stored on one of the nonvolatile storage device that includes one or more alcohol impairment limits;
- and
- a set of instructions which are loaded into the memory and executed by at least one of the processors in order to perform actions of:
- receiving one or more alcohol inputs at an interactive system, where each of the alcohol inputs corresponds to an alcoholic beverage to be consumed by a consumer, wherein at least one of the alcohol inputs is sent by one of the sensors that identifies at least one of the alcoholic beverages;
- calculating an estimated blood-alcohol level of the consumer based on the one or more alcohol inputs;
- comparing the estimated blood-alcohol level with the alcohol impairment limits retrieved from the data store;
- and
- automatically signaling an alert in response to the comparison revealing that the estimated blood-alcohol level exceeds one of the alcohol impairment limits.
A computer program product stored in a computer readable medium, comprising functional descriptive material that, when executed by an information handling system, causes the information handling system to perform actions that include:
- receiving one or more alcohol inputs at an interactive system, where each of the alcohol inputs corresponds to an alcoholic beverage to be consumed by a consumer;
- calculating an estimated blood-alcohol level of the consumer based on the one or more alcohol inputs;
- comparing the estimated blood-alcohol level with one or more alcohol impairment limits retrieved from an electronic data store;
- and
- automatically signaling an alert in response to the comparison revealing that the estimated blood-alcohol level exceeds one of the alcohol impairment limits.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.