Device and method of creating a beverage recipe for an integrated system for dispensing and blending/mixing beverage ingredients
AssigneeEnodis Corporation
InventorsJan Claesson, William E. Smith, Roberto Nevarez
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Abstract
A method and device for creating a beverage recipe for an integrated beverage blending system includes a dispenser and at least one blending/mixing/cleaning module. The method creates the beverage recipe with recipe program running on a computer interactively with a user making recipe entry parameters for the dispensing, blending and mixing operations. The recipe can be stored on a portable memory and inserted into a user interface controller of the integrated system or into an associated point of sale device.
Claims36
A method of operating a computer interactively with a user interface device to prepare a beverage recipe for an integrated beverage system that comprises a dispensing module that dispenses one or more selected ingredients into a beverage container and a blending/mixing module with integrated cleaning that blends and/or mixes said ingredients in said beverage container, said method comprising:
- executing on said computer a recipe program that comprises:
- presenting to a user one or more screens on a display of said user interface device for said user to enter recipe parameters for said beverage recipe;
- and
- saving said entered recipe parameters as said beverage recipe in a memory associated with said computer.
A computer that operates interactively with a user interface device to prepare a beverage recipe for an integrated beverage system that comprises a dispensing module that dispenses one or more selected ingredients into a beverage container and a blending/mixing module with integrated cleaning that blends and/or mixes said ingredients in said beverage container, said computer comprising:
- a recipe program that when executed comprises:
- presenting to a user one or more screens on a display of said user interface device for said user to enter recipe parameters for said beverage recipe;
- and
- saving said entered recipe parameters as said beverage recipe in a memory associated with said computer.
A memory media upon which is stored a recipe program for execution by a computer that operates interactively with a user interface device to prepare a beverage recipe for an integrated beverage system that comprises a dispensing module that dispenses one or more selected ingredients into a beverage container and a blending/mixing module with integrated cleaning that blends and/or mixes said ingredients in said beverage container, said memory media comprising:
- instructions that when executed cause said computer to:
- present to a user one or more screens on a display of said user interface device for said user to enter recipe parameters for said beverage recipe;
- and
- to save said entered recipe parameters as said beverage recipe in a memory associated with said computer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.