System and Method of Use for Dispensing Liquids from a Container
AssigneeBerg LLC
InventorsMichael J. Keating, Donald R. Lamond, Ronald F. Faust, Thomas E. Giles, Albert H. Dorsey
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Abstract
A method for dispensing a beverage from a bottle that includes communicating a dispensing authorization message from a control unit to at least one of a server interface carried by a beverage server and a pour spout secured to a bottle, wherein the dispensing authorization message at least one of includes or initiates a dispensing command, and wherein the pour spout responds to the dispensing command by opening a spout valve through which a beverage flows from the bottle and out of the pour spout.
Claims29
A system for dispensing a beverage from a bottle comprising:
- a pour spout adapted to be attached to a bottle and having a first transceiver for wireless communication, a first controller connected to the first transceiver, and a valve operated by the first controller to control flow of a beverage from the bottle through the spout in response to a first message received by the first transceiver;
- a server interface adapted to be carried by a beverage server and comprising a second transceiver for communicating the first message;
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- a control unit for communicating with at least one of the second transceiver of the server interface and the first transceiver of the pour spout, wherein the first message is communicated to the pour spout either directly from the control unit as a pour command, or relayed by the server interface as a pour command.
A method for dispensing a beverage from a bottle comprising:
- communicating a dispensing authorization message from a control unit to at least one of a server interface that is being carried by a beverage server and a pour spout secured to a bottle;
- wherein the dispensing authorization message at least one of includes or initiates a dispensing command, and wherein the pour spout responds to the dispensing command by opening a spout valve through which a beverage flows from the bottle and out of the pour spout.
A method for dispensing a beverage from a bottle comprising:
- sensing a beverage dispensing indication initiated by a beverage server;
- in response to sensing a beverage dispensing indication, communicating a spout identifier from a pour spout attached to a bottle containing a beverage to be dispensed by the beverage server, to at least one of a control unit and a server interface;
- communicating from at least one of the pour spout and server interface a request message to the control unit, wherein the request message contains a server identifier unique to that server interface;
- the control unit responding to the request message by communicating to at least one of the pour spout and the server interface, authorization or denial for beverage dispensing, wherein if the authorization is transmitted to the server interface, the server interface communicates a dispensing command to the pour spout;
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- the pour spout responding to the dispensing command by opening a valve in the pour spout to allow beverage to flow from the bottle.
A method for dispensing beverages in bottles comprising:
- a beverage server selecting a cocktail via a user input device;
- in response to the cocktail that was selected, obtaining a designation of a plurality of liquor ingredients from an electronic memory in the user input device and communicating the plurality of liquor ingredients to a control unit;
- communicating the designation of the plurality of liquor ingredients from the control unit to a server interface carried by the beverage server;
- sequentially for each of the plurality of liquor ingredients, the server interface communicating a dispensing command to a given pour spout attached to a bottle containing a respective liquor ingredient of the plurality of liquor ingredients;
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- the given pour spout responding to the dispensing command by opening a valve through which the respective liquor ingredient flows from the bottle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.