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US 2013/0173339 A1Published application
Food management services
AssigneeKitchology Inc.
InventorsAlain C. Briancon, Iris S. Sherman, Michele A. Drgon, Chris A. Giacoponello, Ellen S. Foreman, Howard E. Goldberg, Marc D. Feldman, Ian T. Durham
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Abstract
A food chain procurement and consumption management service tailored to support consumer specific goals that may evolve and be altered over time. While described in terms of the preferred embodiment, the system for procurement and consumption management may be adapted to encompass products and services that are not food specific.
Claims12
A method of providing food management services comprising:
- offering one or more incentives for prospective consumers to register with a provider of food management services;
- receiving a request at the provider of food management services from a consumer to register with the provider of food management services to receive at least one of the offered incentives;
- registering the consumer with the food management provider of services to create a registered consumer;
- assigning a unique identifier to the registered consumer;
- assigning permission granted to one or more recording devices of the registered consumer that is connected to a network to record food activities of the registered consumer using the unique identifier at the provider of food management services;
- enabling one or more applications on said one or more recording devices of the registered consumer to generate unique transaction identifiers to record food activity information of the registered consumer;
- generating food activity media objects (FAMO) on said recording devices with permission granted or recording devices of associated consumers with allowed permissions;
- receiving at the provider of food management services FAMOs from one or more of the one or more recording devices of the registered consumer;
- recording at the provider of food management services of at least part of the FAMOs as associated with the unique identifier;
- communicating receipt of FAMOs from the provider of food management services to one or more of the one or more recording devices of the registered consumer or recording devices of associated consumers;
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- generating a database by the provider of food management services of individual, and aggregated consumer activity, wherein the individual consumer activity includes the FAMOs that are recorded.
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A computer-implemented method for associating consumers with similar food goals the method comprising:
- identifying a set of common food activities (SCFA) in a computer system;
- establishing an aggregation minimum grade threshold (AMGT) in the computer system;
- identifying a consumer that has graded said SCFA and whose grade of said SCFA exceeds said AMGT in the computer system;
- identifying one or more other consumers that have graded said SCFA and given a grade of said SCFA that is substantially similar to grades given by the consumer for the SCFA in the computer system;
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- estimating how the consumer would grade a food activity in the computer system that the consumer has not yet graded by determining a similarity between the SCFA and the food activity that the consumer has not yet graded, wherein determining the similarity between the SCFA and the food activity that the consumer has not yet graded includes comparing the grade given by the one or more other consumers for the SCFA to a grade given by the one or more other consumers for the food activity that the consumer has not yet graded.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.