Kitchen display interfaces with in flight capabilities

• US 10,289,992 B1
• Filed: 06/17/2016
• Issued: 05/14/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 06/17/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Block, Inc. (f/k/a Square, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Block, Inc. (f/k/a Square, Inc.)
• Inventors: Bell, Bruce, Rocklin, William, Crespo, Nelson, Wilson, Mathew
• Primary Examiner(s): Rudy, Andrew Joseph
• Application Number:
  US15/185,383
• Time in Patent Office: 1,061 Days
• Field of Search: 705 21, 705 261, 705 2682, 705 35- 38, 235376-383, 4554321, 726 21- 23
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2358 Change logging, detection, and notification replication G06F16/27
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/248 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/285 Clustering or classification
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 7/08 Sorting, i.e. grouping record carriers in numerical or other ordered sequence according to the classification of at least some of the information they carry by merging two or more sets of carriers in ordered sequence G06F7/16
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/12 specially adapted for electronic shopping systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/20 Point-of-sale [POS] network systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/202 Interconnection or interaction of plural electronic cash registers [ECR] or to host computer, e.g. network details, transfer of information from host to ECR or from ECR to ECR
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/209 Specified transaction journal output feature, e.g. printed receipt or voice output
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0635 Processing of requisition or of purchase orders
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/12 Hotels or restaurants
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 1/01 Details for indicating displaying information in general G09F, G09G

Abstract

Techniques and arrangements for providing kitchen display interfaces with in flight capabilities. In some examples, a kitchen display system presents, via a kitchen display user interface, a first order ticket associated with a first transaction between a merchant and a first customer and a second order ticket associated with a second transaction between the merchant and a second customer. The kitchen display system can then generate a list of items based at least in part on the first order ticket and the second order ticket. In some examples, the list of items includes items from the first order ticket and the second order ticket that are in an in progress state. After generating the list of items, the kitchen display system presents the list of items via the kitchen display user interface. In some examples, the kitchen display system further sends the list of items to another merchant device.

Claims

1. A kitchen display system comprising:

a display;

one or more processors; and

one or more computer-readable media storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising;

presenting, on the display, a kitchen display user interface (UI), the kitchen display UI including at least;

an order ticket interface for providing order tickets, an individual order ticket of the order tickets being associated with a transaction between a merchant and a customer; and

an in-flight interface for providing a list of items based at least in part on the order tickets, the list of items indicating items from the order tickets that are in an in-progress state, the in-progress state indicating that the items are in a state of currently being prepared, or yet to be prepared, by the merchant;

receiving, from a point-of-sale (POS) device associated with the merchant, via a network, first data associated with a first transaction between the merchant and a first customer, the first data;

indicating first items ordered by the first customer from the merchant; and

including a first versioning data structure indicating a version of a first open ticket associated with the first transaction;

creating a first order ticket for the first transaction using the first data;

presenting, on the display, the first order ticket via the order ticket interface, the first order ticket indicating that one or more of the first items are in the in-progress state;

receiving, from the POS device, via the network, second data associated with a second transaction between the merchant and a second customer, the second data;

indicating second items ordered by the second customer from the merchant; and

including a second versioning data structure indicating a version of a second open ticket associated with the second transaction;

creating a second order ticket for the second transaction using the second data;

presenting, on the display, the second order ticket via the order ticket interface, the second order ticket indicating that one or more of the second items are in the in-progress state; and

generating, based at least in part on the first order ticket and the second order ticket, the list of items by;

identifying that the one or more of the first items from the first order ticket are in the in-progress state;

determining one or more first item categories associated with the one or more of the first items from the first order ticket;

identifying that the one or more of the second items from the second order ticket are in the in-progress state;

determining one or more second item categories associated with the one or more of the second items from the second order ticket;

combining, based at least in part on the one or more first item categories and the one or more second item categories, the one or more of the first items from the first order ticket with the one or more of the second items from the second order ticket; and

presenting, on the display, the list of items via the in-flight interface.

2. The kitchen display system of claim 1, the operations further comprising generating the list of items by ranking items included in the list of items based at least in part on at least one of:

item categories that are included in the list of items, the item categories including at least the one or more first item categories and the one or more second item categories,

a number of items included in individual item categories from the item categories, or

preparation times associated with the items included in the list of items.

3. The kitchen display system of claim 1, the operations further comprising sending, to at least one of the POS device or a counter device associated with the merchant, data associated with the list of items.

4. The kitchen display system of claim 1, the operations further comprising:

receiving input indicating that the one or more of the first items from the first order ticket are complete; and

based at least in part on receiving the input;

removing the first order ticket from the order ticket interface; and

updating the list of the items.

5. The kitchen display system of claim 1, the operations further comprising:

receiving, from a counter device, third data indicating that the one or more of the first items from the first order ticket are complete; and

based at least in part on receiving the third data;

removing the first order ticket from the order ticket interface; and

updating the list of the items.

6. An electronic device comprising:

one or more processors; and

one or more computer-readable media storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising;

receiving, from a point-of-sale (POS) device, first data associated with a first transaction between a merchant and a first customer;

presenting, via a kitchen display interface, a first order ticket associated with the first transaction;

receiving, from the POS device, second data associated with a second transaction between the merchant and a second customer;

presenting, via the kitchen display interface, a second order ticket associated with the second transaction;

generating, based at least in part on the first order ticket and the second order ticket, a list of items indicating;

one or more items included in the first order ticket that are in an in-progress state, the in-progress state indicating that the one or more items included in the first order ticket are in a state of currently being prepared, or yet to be prepared, by the merchant; and

one or more items included in the second order ticket that are in the in-progress state; and

presenting, via the kitchen display interface, the list of items.

7. The electronic device of claim 6, wherein generating the list of items comprises:

identifying that the one or more items included in the first order ticket are in the in-progress state;

determining one or more first item categories associated with the one or more items included in the first order ticket;

identifying that the one or more items included in the second order ticket are in the in-progress state;

determining one or more second item categories associated with the one or more items included in the second order ticket; and

combining, based at least in part on the one or more first item categories and the one or more second item categories, the one or more items included in the first order ticket with the one or more items included in the second order ticket.

8. The electronic device of claim 6, the operations further comprising ranking items included in the list of items based at least in part on at least one of:

item categories that are included in the list of items,

a number of items included in individual item categories from the item categories, or

preparation times associated with the items included in the list of items.

9. The electronic device of claim 6, further comprising:

a display device,

wherein the operations further comprise displaying, using the display device, the kitchen display interface, wherein;

presenting the first order ticket includes displaying the first order ticket within a first portion of the kitchen display interface;

presenting the second order ticket includes displaying the second order ticket within the first portion of the kitchen display interface; and

presenting the list of items includes displaying the list of items within a second portion of the kitchen display interface.

10. The electronic device of claim 6, the operations further comprising:

receiving input indicating that the one or more items included in the first order ticket are complete;

determining that the first order ticket is in a complete state; and

based at least in part on determining that the first order ticket is in the complete state;

removing the first order ticket from the kitchen display interface; and

updating the list of items.

11. The electronic device of claim 6, the operations further comprising:

receiving, from a counter device, an indication that the first order ticket is complete;

determining, based at least in part on the indication, that the first order ticket is in a complete state; and

based at least in part on determining that the first order ticket is in the complete state;

removing the first order ticket from the kitchen display interface; and

updating the list of items.

12. The electronic device of claim 6, the operations further comprising:

receiving, from the POS device, third data associated with a third transaction between the merchant and a third customer;

presenting a third order ticket associated with the third transaction via the kitchen display interface; and

updating the list of items based at least in part on one or more items indicated in the third order ticket that are in the in-progress state.

13. The electronic device of claim 6, wherein the kitchen display interface includes a first interactive button for advancing to previous order tickets included in the kitchen display interface and a second interactive button for advancing to newer order tickets included in the kitchen display interface, and wherein the operations further comprise:

determining that at least one item from an order ticket has been in the in-progress state for a threshold period of time;

determining that the order ticket is not being presented via the kitchen display interface; and

causing the first interactive button or the second interactive button to indicate that the at least one item from the order ticket is in an alert state.

14. The electronic device of claim 6, wherein the first data includes a first versioning data structure indicating a version of a first open ticket associated with the first transaction, and the second data includes a second versioning data structure indicating a version of a second open ticket associated with the second transaction.

15. A method comprising:

causing, by a kitchen display system, display of a user interface;

receiving, by the kitchen display system, from a point-of-sale (POS) device, first data associated with a first transaction between a merchant and a customer, the first data indicating a first item;

displaying, by the kitchen display system, via the user interface, a first order ticket for the first transaction, the first order ticket indicating that the first item is in an in-progress state, the in-progress state indicating that the first item is in a state of being prepared, or yet to be prepared, by the merchant;

receiving, by the kitchen display system, from the POS device, second data associated with a second transaction, the second data indicating a second item;

displaying, by the kitchen display system, via the user interface, a second order ticket for the second transaction, the second order ticket indicating that the second item is in the in in-progress state;

generating, by the kitchen display system, a list of items based at least in part on the first order ticket and the second order ticket, the list of items indicating that the first item and the second item are in the in-progress state; and

displaying, by the kitchen display system, via the user interface, the list of items.

16. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

creating, by the kitchen display system, the first order ticket based at least in part on the first data; and

creating, by the kitchen display system, the second order ticket based at least in part on the second data.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein generating the list of items comprises:

identifying, by the kitchen display system, from the first order ticket, that the first item is in the in-progress state;

determining, by the kitchen display system, a first item category associated with the first item;

identifying, by the kitchen display system, from the second order ticket, that the second item is in the in-progress state;

determining, by the kitchen display system, a second item category associated with the second item; and

combining, based at last in part on the first item category and the second item category, the first item and the second item.

18. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

receiving, by the kitchen display system, input indicating that the first item is complete; and

based at least in part on the input;

determining, by the kitchen display system, that the first order ticket is in a complete state;

removing, by the kitchen display system, the first order ticket from the user interface; and

updating the list of items by removing the first item from the list of items.

19. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

receiving, by the kitchen display system, and from a counter device, an indication that the first item is complete; and

based at least in part on receiving the indication;

determining, by the kitchen display system, that the first order ticket is in a complete state;

removing, by the kitchen display system, the first order ticket from the user interface; and

updating the list of items by removing the first item from the list of items.

20. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

receiving, by the kitchen display system, from the POS device, third data associated with a third transaction, the third data indicating a third item;

displaying, by the kitchen display system, via the user interface, a third order ticket for the third transaction, the third order ticket indicating that the third item is in the in-progress state; and

updating, by the kitchen display system, the list of items to include the third item.