Method and apparatus for dispensing a beverage in accordance with a barcode scanned from a beverage container
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorsROBERTO RAMOS, III, Eliud Robles Flores
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Abstract
A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and apparatus for dispensing a beverage are disclosed. For example, the method receives an indication that a customer desires to dispense a beverage, scans a barcode associated with a beverage container being used by the customer, dispenses the beverage in accordance with information obtained from scanning the barcode and stores one or more dispensing details associated with the dispensing.
Claims20
A method for dispensing a beverage, comprising:
- receiving an indication that a customer desires to dispense a beverage;
- scanning a barcode associated with a beverage container being used by the customer;
- dispensing the beverage in accordance with information obtained from scanning the barcode;
- and
- storing one or more dispensing details associated with the dispensing.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon a plurality of instructions, the plurality of instructions including instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations for dispensing a beverage, the operations comprising:
- receiving an indication that a customer desires to dispense a beverage;
- scanning a barcode associated with a beverage container being used by the customer;
- dispensing the beverage in accordance with information obtained from scanning the barcode;
- and
- storing one or more dispensing details associated with the dispensing.
A method for dispensing a beverage, comprising:
- receiving an indication that a customer desires to dispense a beverage into a beverage container associated with a barcode, wherein the barcode contains personal information associated with the customer that was pre-registered by the customer;
- scanning the barcode associated with a beverage container being used by the customer;
- dispensing the beverage in accordance with the personal information obtained from scanning the barcode;
- storing dispensing one or more details associated with the dispensing, wherein the one or more dispensing details comprise a type of beverage that was dispensed, an amount of the beverage that was dispensed, a time that the beverage was dispensed and the personal information;
- and
- transmitting the one or more dispensing details to a server and tracking the one or more dispensing details over a period of time.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.