Systems and methods for providing customized packagings for customized food items that were customized based, at least in part, on customized food item integrity preference

• US 10,035,643 B2
• Filed: 12/31/2013
• Issued: 07/31/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 12/30/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Elwha LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Elwha LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Holman, Pablos, Hyde, Roderick A., Ishikawa, Muriel Y., Kare, Jordin T., Levchin, Max R., Levien, Royce A., Lord, Richard T., Lord, Robert W., Malamud, Mark A., Myhrvold, Nathan P., Petroski, Robert C., Tegreene, Clarence T., Whitmer, Charles, Wood, Jr., Lowell L., Wood, Victoria Y. H.
• Primary Examiner(s): Zukanovich, Brandy A
• Assistant Examiner(s): Miller, Brittney N
• Application Number:
  US14/145,864
• Publication Number:
  US 20150183534A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,673 Days
• Field of Search: 705 261- 272, 705 265, 700231, 700235
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 85/70 for materials not otherwise provided for
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0621 Item configuration or customization
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/12 Hotels or restaurants
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 11/70 in which the articles are formed in the apparatus from components, blanks, or material constituents
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/0064 for processing of food articles cooking vessels A47J37/00
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/0092 for assembling and dispensing of pharmaceutical articles medical dispensers for private use, A61J7/00
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/26 for printing, stamping, franking, typing or teleprinting apparatus ticket printing or the like apparatus G07F17/42
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 9/001 Interfacing with vending machines using mobile or wearable devices
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 9/009 User recognition or proximity detection
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 9/023 Arrangements for display, data presentation or advertising

Abstract

Computationally implemented methods and systems include acquiring user information associated with one or more users for preparing one or more customized food items for the one or more users, the user information including one or more user preferences related to integrity of one or more food ingredients to be included in the one or more customized food items; and directing generation of one or more customized packagings for holding the one or more customized food items of the one or more users, the one or more customized packagings having one or more features that are customized based, at least in part, on the acquired user information. In addition to the foregoing, other aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text.

Claims

1. A food packaging customization system, comprising:

at least one processing device; and

one or more instructions which, when executed by the at least one processing device, cause the at least one processing device to be configured as at least;

circuitry configured for acquiring user information associated with one or more users for preparing one or more customized food items for the one or more users, including at least utilizing one or more network credentials of the one or more users to obtain at least a portion of the user information at least in part via at least one network connection;

circuitry configured for controlling preparation of the one or more customized food items in accordance with the acquired user information;

circuitry configured for directing generation of one or more customized packagings for holding the one or more customized food items, the one or more customized packagings having one or more bar codes indicative of the one or more users and one or more features that are customized based, at least in part, on the acquired user information;

circuitry configured for controlling one or more components of a robotic packaging system to pack one or more portions of the one or more customized food items into the one or more customized packagings; and

circuitry configured for storing at least one indication of at least one dietary activity, including at least circuitry configured for receiving data acquired by at least one bar code reading arrangement of at least one refuse receptacle to obtain at least one identity of at least one user and at least one indication of at least one customized food item having been packaged in at least one customized packaging discarded into the at least one refuse receptacle.

2. The food packaging customization system of claim 1, wherein circuitry configured for acquiring user information associated with one or more users for preparing one or more customized food items for the one or more users, including at least utilizing one or more network credentials of the one or more users to obtain at least a portion of the user information at least in part via at least one network connection comprises:

circuitry configured for receiving one or more network credentials provided by the one or more users; and

circuitry configured for retrieving, at least in part via at least one network connection, at least a portion of the user information associated with the one or more users based, at least in part, on the one or more network credentials provided by the one or more users.

3. The food packaging customization system of claim 2, wherein circuitry configured for receiving one or more network credentials provided by the one or more users comprises:

circuitry configured for receiving at least one username and at least one password provided by the one or more users.

4. The food packaging customization system of claim 2, wherein circuitry configured for retrieving, at least in part via at least one network connection, at least a portion of the user information associated with the one or more users based, at least in part, on the one or more network credentials provided by the one or more users comprises:

circuitry configured for acquiring at least one of one or more dietary preferences, one or more food customization choices, or one or more ingredient preferences of the one or more users.

5. The food packaging customization system of claim 1, wherein circuitry configured for acquiring user information associated with one or more users for preparing one or more customized food items for the one or more users, including at least utilizing one or more network credentials of the one or more users to obtain at least a portion of the user information at least in part via at least one network connection comprises:

circuitry configured for acquiring at least one dietary consumption history of the one or more users.

6. The food packaging customization system of claim 5, wherein circuitry configured for acquiring at least one dietary consumption history of the one or more users comprises:

circuitry configured for acquiring at least one indication of at least one past dietary activity of the one or more users indicated at least in part via at least one customized food item having been packaged in at least one customized packaging discarded into the at least one refuse receptacle.

7. The food packaging customization system of claim 6, wherein circuitry configured for acquiring at least one indication of at least one past dietary activity of the one or more users indicated at least in part via at least one customized food item having been packaged in at least one customized packaging discarded into the at least one refuse receptacle comprises:

circuitry configured for acquiring at least one indication of one or more consumption trends of one or more food ingredients consumed previously by the one or more users during one or more predefined periods of time.

8. The food packaging customization system of claim 7, wherein circuitry configured for acquiring at least one indication of one or more consumption trends of one or more food ingredients consumed previously by the one or more users during one or more predefined periods of time comprises:

circuitry configured for acquiring at least one indication of one or more consumption trends of one or more food ingredients consumed previously by the one or more users during one or more predefined periods of time as indicated at least in part via at least one customized food item having been packaged in at least one customized packaging that has been customized to have one or more visual indicators that indicate one or more levels of the one or more food ingredients, the at least one customized packaging discarded into the at least one refuse receptacle.

9. The food packaging customization system of claim 1, wherein circuitry configured for acquiring user information associated with one or more users for preparing one or more customized food items for the one or more users, including at least utilizing one or more network credentials of the one or more users to obtain at least a portion of the user information at least in part via at least one network connection comprises:

circuitry configured for acquiring user information that includes one or more user preferences for at least one of one or more sources or one or more locations for obtaining the one or more food ingredients.

10. The food packaging customization system of claim 1, wherein circuitry configured for acquiring user information associated with one or more users for preparing one or more customized food items for the one or more users, including at least utilizing one or more network credentials of the one or more users to obtain at least a portion of the user information at least in part via at least one network connection comprises:

circuitry configured for acquiring user information that includes one or more user preferences that one or more sources not be the one or more sources for obtaining the one or more food ingredients.

11. The food packaging customization system of claim 1, wherein circuitry configured for acquiring user information associated with one or more users for preparing one or more customized food items for the one or more users, including at least utilizing one or more network credentials of the one or more users to obtain at least a portion of the user information at least in part via at least one network connection comprises:

circuitry configured for acquiring user information that includes one or more user preferences for one or more locations not be the one or more sources for obtaining the one or more food ingredients.

12. The food packaging customization system of claim 1, wherein circuitry configured for directing generation of one or more customized packagings for holding the one or more customized food items, the one or more customized packagings having one or more bar codes indicative of the one or more users and one or more features that are customized based, at least in part, on the acquired user information comprises:

circuitry configured for directing generation of one or more customized packagings that display customized information that has been customized based, at least in part, on the acquired user information.

13. The food packaging customization system of claim 12, wherein circuitry configured for directing generation of one or more customized packagings that display customized information that has been customized based, at least in part, on the acquired user information comprises:

circuitry configured for directing printing of the customized information onto one or more labels and configured for directing affixing of the one or more printed labels onto one or more packagings that are designed for holding at least one or more portions of one or more customized food items.

14. The food packaging customization system of claim 12, wherein circuitry configured for directing generation of one or more customized packagings that display customized information that has been customized based, at least in part, on the acquired user information comprises:

circuitry configured for directing printing of the customized information onto one or more packagings that are designed for holding at least one or more portions of one or more customized food items.

15. The food packaging customization system of claim 14, wherein circuitry customized information packaging printing controlling module configured to control printing of the customized information onto one or more packagings that are designed for holding at least one or more portions of one or more customized food items comprises:

circuitry configured for directing printing of the customized information onto at least one of a wrapping sheet, a bag, a cup or a bowl, or a plate or a tray.

16. The food packaging customization system of claim 12, wherein circuitry configured for directing generation of one or more customized packagings that display customized information that has been customized based, at least in part, on the acquired user information comprises:

circuitry configured for directing generation of one or more customized packagings that have been customized to have one or more visual indicators that provide information related to the one or more users.

17. The food packaging customization system of claim 16, wherein circuitry configured for directing generation of one or more customized packagings that have been customized to have one or more visual indicators that provide information related to the one or more users comprises:

circuitry configured for directing generation of at least one customized packaging that has been customized to have one or more visual indicators that identifies at least one user associated with the at least one customized packaging.

18. The food packaging customization system of claim 17, wherein circuitry configured for directing generation of at least one customized packaging that has been customized to have one or more visual indicators that identifies at least one user associated with the at least one customized packaging comprises:

circuitry configured for directing generation of at least one customized packaging having at least one icon identifying at least one ingredient present in the one or more customized food items.

19. The food packaging customization system of claim 17, wherein circuitry configured for directing generation of at least one customized packaging that has been customized to have one or more visual indicators that identifies at least one user associated with the at least one customized packaging comprises:

circuitry configured for directing generation of at least one customized packaging that has been customized to have one or more visual indicators that identifies at least one user associated with the at least one customized packaging and for displaying an alert or a warning associated with a second user and the customized food item to be included in the customized packaging.

20. The food packaging customization system of claim 12, wherein circuitry configured for directing generation of one or more customized packagings that display customized information that has been customized based, at least in part, on the acquired user information comprises:

circuitry configured for directing generation of at least one customized packaging that has been customized to have one or more visual indicators that provide dietary information related to at least one user.

21. The food packaging customization system of claim 20, wherein circuitry configured for directing generation of at least one customized packaging that has been customized to have one or more visual indicators that provide dietary information related to at least one user comprises:

circuitry configured for directing generation of at least one customized packaging that has been customized to have one or more visual indicators that indicate historical dietary consumption information of the at least one user derived from one or more stored indications of dietary activity.

22. The food packaging customization system of claim 20, wherein circuitry configured for directing generation of at least one customized packaging that has been customized to have one or more visual indicators that provide dietary information related to at least one user comprises:

circuitry configured for directing generation of at least one customized packaging that has been customized to have one or more visual indicators that compare one or more quantities of one or more ingredients of one or more customized food items to be held by the at least one customized packaging with historical consumption data relating historical consumption of the one or more ingredients of the one or more customized food items by the at least one user.

23. The food packaging customization system of claim 12, wherein circuitry configured for directing generation of one or more customized packagings that display customized information that has been customized based, at least in part, on the acquired user information comprises:

circuitry configured for directing generation of at least one customized packaging that has been customized to have one or more visual indicators that provide information related to one or more customized food items to be held by the at least one customized packaging.

24. The food packaging customization system of claim 23, wherein circuitry configured for directing generation of at least one customized packaging that has been customized to have one or more visual indicators that provide information related to one or more customized food items to be held by the at least one customized packaging comprises:

circuitry configured for directing generation of at least one customized packaging that has been customized to have one or more visual indicators that identifies one or more ingredients included in the one or more customized food items to be held by the at least one customized packaging.

25. The food packaging customization system of claim 24, wherein circuitry configured for directing generation of at least one customized packaging that has been customized to have one or more visual indicators that identifies one or more ingredients included in the one or more customized food items to be held by the at least one customized packaging comprises:

circuitry configured for directing generation of at least one customized packaging that has been customized to have one or more visual indicators that indicate one or more quantities of the one or more ingredients included in the one or more customized food items to be held by the at least one customized packaging.

26. The food packaging customization system of claim 23, wherein circuitry configured for directing generation of at least one customized packaging that has been customized to have one or more visual indicators that provide information related to one or more customized food items to be held by the at least one customized packaging comprises:

circuitry configured for directing generation of at least one customized packaging that has been customized to have one or more visual indicators that identifies one or more customizations that were performed in order to produce one or more customized food items to be held by the at least one customized packaging.

27. The food packaging customization system of claim 26, wherein circuitry configured for directing generation of at least one customized packaging that has been customized to have one or more visual indicators that identifies one or more customizations that were performed in order to produce one or more customized food items to be held by the at least one customized packaging comprises:

circuitry configured for directing generation of at least one customized packaging that has been customized to have one or more visual indicators that identifies one or more ingredients that are absent from the one or more customized food items to be held by the at least one customized packaging.

28. The food packaging customization system of claim 1, wherein circuitry configured for directing generation of one or more customized packagings for holding the one or more customized food items, the one or more customized packagings having one or more bar codes indicative of the one or more users and one or more features that are customized based, at least in part, on the acquired user information comprises:

circuitry configured for directing the generation of the one or more customized packagings having the one or more features that are customized based, at least in part, on acquired dietary information associated with at least one of the one or more users.

29. The food packaging customization system of claim 28, wherein circuitry configured for directing the generation of the one or more customized packagings having the one or more features that are customized based, at least in part, on acquired dietary information associated with at least one of the one or more users comprises:

circuitry configured for directing the generation of the one or more customized packagings having the one or more features that are customized based, at least in part, on one or more ingredient preferences that were made by the at least one of the one or more users.

30. The food packaging customization system of claim 1, wherein circuitry configured for directing generation of one or more customized packagings for holding the one or more customized food items, the one or more customized packagings having one or more bar codes indicative of the one or more users and one or more features that are customized based, at least in part, on the acquired user information comprises:

circuitry configured for directing generation of one or more customized packagings having one or more features that are customized to indicate integrity of the one or more customized food items based, at least in part, on the acquired user information.

31. The food packaging customization system of claim 30, wherein circuitry configured for directing generation of one or more customized packagings having one or more features that are customized to indicate integrity of the one or more customized food items based, at least in part, on the acquired user information comprises:

circuitry configured for directing generation of one or more customized packagings having one or more features that are customized to indicate purity of the one or more customized food items.

32. The food packaging customization system of claim 31, wherein circuitry configured for directing generation of one or more customized packagings having one or more features that are customized to indicate purity of the one or more customized food items comprises:

circuitry configured for directing generation of one or more customized packagings having one or more features that are customized to indicate that one or more selective bacteria are present in the one or more customized food items at least below one or more predefined levels.

33. The food packaging customization system of claim 30, wherein circuitry configured for directing generation of one or more customized packagings having one or more features that are customized to indicate integrity of the one or more customized food items based, at least in part, on the acquired user information comprises:

circuitry configured for directing generation of one or more customized packagings having one or more features that are customized to indicate that one or more portions of the one or more customized food items were not obtained from at least one of one or more specified sources or one or more specified locations.

34. The food packaging customization system of claim 1, wherein circuitry configured for controlling preparation of the one or more customized food items in accordance with the acquired user information comprises:

circuitry configured for directing at least one robotic arrangement of an automated customized food preparation system to prepare the one or more customized food items in accordance with the acquired user information.

35. The food packaging customization system of claim 34, wherein circuitry configured for directing at least one robotic arrangement of an automated customized food preparation system to prepare the one or more customized food items in accordance with the acquired user information comprises:

circuitry configured for controlling at least one ingredient container to obtain at least one ingredient in accordance with the acquired user information for use by the at least one robotic arrangement of the automated customized food preparation system in preparing the one or more customized food items in accordance with the acquired user information.

36. The food packaging customization system of claim 1, wherein circuitry configured for controlling one or more components of a robotic packaging system to pack one or more portions of the one or more customized food items into the one or more customized packagings comprises:

circuitry configured for controlling one or more components of a robotic packaging system to direct placement of the one or more portions of the one or more customized food items into the one or more customized packagings, the one or more customized packagings including at least one of one or more customized wrapping sheets or one or more customized bags, the one or more customized packagings having been customized with at least (a) at least one bar code indicative of at least one ingredient selected during preparation of the one or more customized food items in accordance with the acquired user information and (b) the one or more bar codes indicative of the one or more users.

37. The food packaging customization system of claim 1, wherein circuitry configured for acquiring user information associated with one or more users for preparing one or more customized food items for the one or more users, including at least utilizing one or more network credentials of the one or more users to obtain at least a portion of the user information at least in part via at least one network connection comprises:

circuitry configured for detecting one or more mobile devices associated with the one or more users within at least one proximity of the food packaging customization system;

circuitry configured for obtaining the one or more network credentials of the one or more users from the one or more mobile devices associated with the one or more users within the at least one proximity of the food packaging customization system; and

circuitry configured for retrieving, at least in part via at least one network connection, at least a portion of the user information associated with the one or more users based, at least in part, on the one or more network credentials of the one or more users.

38. The food packaging customization system of claim 1, wherein circuitry configured for storing at least one indication of at least one dietary activity, including at least circuitry configured for receiving data acquired by at least one bar code reading arrangement of at least one refuse receptacle to obtain at least one identity of at least one user and at least one indication of at least one customized food item having been packaged in at least one customized packaging discarded into the at least one refuse receptacle comprises:

circuitry configured for controlling at least one bar code reading arrangement of at least one refuse receptacle within the food packaging customization system to read at least one bar code of at least one customized packaging discarded into the at least one refuse receptacle;

circuitry configured for identifying the at least one user at least partly based on the at least one bar code of at least one customized packaging; and

circuitry configured for updating historical dietary information of the at least one user at least partly based on the at least one customized packaging.

39. The food packaging customization system of claim 1, wherein circuitry configured for storing at least one indication of at least one dietary activity, including at least circuitry configured for receiving data acquired by at least one bar code reading arrangement of at least one refuse receptacle to obtain at least one identity of at least one user and at least one indication of at least one customized food item having been packaged in at least one customized packaging discarded into the at least one refuse receptacle comprises:

circuitry configured for continuously recording and tracking activity associated with one or more customized food items prepared for the one or more users.

40. The food packaging customization system of claim 1, wherein circuitry configured for acquiring user information associated with one or more users for preparing one or more customized food items for the one or more users, including at least utilizing one or more network credentials of the one or more users to obtain at least a portion of the user information at least in part via at least one network connection comprises:

circuitry configured for acquiring historical dietary information associated with the one or more users.

41. The food packaging customization system of claim 40, wherein circuitry configured for acquiring historical dietary information associated with the one or more users comprises:

circuitry configured for acquiring historical dietary information associated with one or more users based, at least partly, on continuous recording and tracking of one or more previously generated customized food items customized for the one or more users in accordance with acquired user information.

42. The food packaging customization system of claim 40, wherein circuitry configured for acquiring historical dietary information associated with the one or more users comprises:

circuitry configured for acquiring historical dietary information associated with the one or more users from at least one memory of at least one mobile device associated with the one or more users.

43. The food packaging customization system of claim 1, wherein circuitry configured for directing generation of one or more customized packagings for holding the one or more customized food items, the one or more customized packagings having one or more bar codes indicative of the one or more users and one or more features that are customized based, at least in part, on the acquired user information comprises:

circuitry configured for directing generation of one or more customized packagings for holding the one or more customized food items, the one or more customized packagings having one or more bar codes indicative of the one or more users and one or more bar codes indicative of one or more customizations occurring during preparation of the one or more customized food items in accordance with the acquired user information.

44. A food packaging customization system, comprising:

one or more processing devices; and

one or more instructions which, when executed by at least one of the one or more processing devices, cause at least one of the one or more processing devices to perform one or more operations including at least;

acquiring user information associated with one or more users for preparing one or more customized food items for the one or more users, including at least utilizing one or more network credentials of the one or more users to obtain at least a portion of the user information at least in part via at least one network connection;

controlling preparation of the one or more customized food items in accordance with the acquired user information;

directing generation of one or more customized packagings for holding the one or more customized food items, the one or more customized packagings having one or more bar codes indicative of the one or more users and one or more features that are customized based, at least in part, on the acquired user information;

controlling one or more components of a robotic packaging system to pack one or more portions of the one or more customized food items into the one or more customized packagings; and

storing at least one indication of at least one dietary activity, including at least receiving data acquired by at least one bar code reading arrangement of at least one refuse receptacle to obtain at least one identity of at least one user and at least one indication of at least one customized food item having been packaged in at least one customized packaging discarded into the at least one refuse receptacle.

45. A food packaging customization method, comprising:

acquiring user information associated with one or more users for preparing one or more customized food items for the one or more users, including at least utilizing one or more network credentials of the one or more users to obtain at least a portion of the user information at least in part via at least one network connection;

controlling preparation of the one or more customized food items in accordance with the acquired user information;

directing generation of one or more customized packagings for holding the one or more customized food items, the one or more customized packagings having one or more bar codes indicative of the one or more users and one or more features that are customized based, at least in part, on the acquired user information;

controlling one or more components of a robotic packaging system to pack one or more portions of the one or more customized food items into the one or more customized packagings; and

storing at least one indication of at least one dietary activity, including at least receiving data acquired by at least one bar code reading arrangement of at least one refuse receptacle to obtain at least one identity of at least one user and at least one indication of at least one customized food item having been packaged in at least one customized packaging discarded into the at least one refuse receptacle,

wherein at least one of the acquiring, controlling, directing, or storing is at least partially implemented using at least one processing device.