US 9,499,385 B1 · System and method for brewing and dispensing coffee using customer profiling

Abstract

A system and method for brewing and dispensing beverages may use customer profiling to select beverages to be produced and presented to a given customer and/or messages to be displayed to the customer, based on customer-specific information stored on a loyalty card, in a local system, or remotely. A user interface mechanism may receive input identifying the given customer. A controller may select a base drink recipe dependent on the customer's identity, and may initiate production of a beverage using the selected drink recipe. Each drink recipe may specify an amount of water, coffee, flavorings, dairy, and/or other ingredients, and may be further customizable to add or remove ingredients and/or to change an amount thereof, based on received user input. The stored customer-specific information may include a customer identifier, account information, a purchase history, a message history, drink recipes, and/or an email address for each of a plurality of customers.

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Dependent claims

A system comprising:

a user interface mechanism comprising a video capture device;
a facial recognition mechanism that during operation receives input from the video capture device and identifies a customer from the received input using facial recognition;
and
a controller that during operation and in response to said identifying:
selects one of a plurality of standard or custom drink recipes dependent on the identity of the customer, wherein each drink recipe specifies an amount of two or more ingredients in a respective brewed beverage;
and
initiates production of a brewed beverage using the selected drink recipe,
wherein during operation:
the controller determines the actual temperature of the brewed beverage;
and
the user interface mechanism displays the determined temperature.

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A method, comprising:

using a computer to perform:
receiving input from a video capture device;
identifying a customer from the received input using facial recognition;
in response to said identifying:
selecting one of a plurality of standard or custom drink recipes dependent on the identity of the customer, wherein each drink recipe specifies an amount of two or more ingredients in a respective brewed beverage;
and
initiating production of a brewed beverage using the selected drink recipe;
determining the actual temperature of the brewed beverage;
and
displaying the determined temperature on a user interface mechanism.

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A non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium storing program instructions that when executed on one or more computers cause the one or more computers to perform:

receiving input from a video capture device;
identifying a customer from the received input using facial recognition;
in response to said identifying:
selecting one of a plurality of standard or custom drink recipes dependent on the identity of the customer, wherein each drink recipe specifies an amount of two or more ingredients in a respective brewed beverage;
and
initiating production of a brewed beverage using the selected drink recipe;
determining the actual temperature of the brewed beverage;
and
displaying the determined temperature on a user interface mechanism.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

System and method for brewing and dispensing coffee using customer profiling

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System and method for brewing and dispensing coffee using customer profiling

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Abstract

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