Actual cooking result management method, content management method, server, and cooking apparatus

• US 20040107178A1
• Filed: 10/09/2003
• Published: 06/03/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 05/29/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Intertrust Technologies Corporation (Fidelio Acquisition Co LLC)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Kudo, Takahiro, Ozawa, Jun, Matsuura, Satoshi, Sano, Masaaki
• Granted Patent: US 7,685,256 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 6/688 for thawing

Abstract

For cooking data provided via a communication network, use track records of the cooking data corresponding with their actual use status are accurately managed. When receiving a request for transmission of cooking data from a terminal (S11), a server transmits the cooking data to the terminal (S12, S13), and at this time receives use history data with a microwave oven for previously transmitted cooking data (S14). The server manages use track records of the cooking data based on use history data received from terminals.

Claims

1. A cooking track record management method using a server capable of transmitting information to a terminal via a communication network, the server including a cooking data database storing a plurality of pieces of cooking data, the method comprising the steps of:

transmitting cooking data read from the cooking data database to a terminal requesting transmission of the cooking data;

receiving use history data with a cooking appliance for transmitted cooking data from the terminal; and

managing use track records of the cooking data stored in the cooking data database based on the use history data received from the terminal.

2. The cooking track record management method of claim 1, wherein the server receives the use history data for previously transmitted cooking data from the terminal when the server receives a request for transmission of cooking data from the terminal or when the sever transmits cooking data to the terminal.

3. The cooking track record management method of claim 1, wherein the server transmits the managed use track records of cooking data to a terminal which requests transmission of the use track records.

4. The cooking track record management method of claim 1, wherein the cooking appliance is a microwave oven.

5. The cooking track record management method of claim 1, wherein the cooking data transmitted to the terminal is given to the cooking appliance via a recording medium, and the use history data with the cooking appliance is given to the terminal via the recording medium.

6. The cooking track record management method of claim 1, wherein the cooking appliance has a communication function and operates as the terminal.

7. The cooking track record management method of claim 1, wherein the use history data includes data representing the use frequency of cooking data for each action.

8. The cooking track record management method of claim 7, wherein the cooking appliance comprises:

an operating section;

an input section for reading cooking data; and

an operation-action correspondence database representing the correspondence between the operation performed with the operating section and the action for the cooking data read via the input section, and the use frequency of the cooking data for each action is recorded by referring to the operation-action correspondence database.

9. The cooking track record management method of claim 1, wherein the terminal transmits use history data with a plurality of appliances including the cooking appliance.

10. The cooking track record management method of claim 9, wherein the use history data includes data representing the use frequency of the cooking data for each appliance.

11. The cooking track record management method of claim 1, wherein the server transmits advertisement information-inserted cooking data, and

the server computes the browse frequency of the advertisement information based on the use history data for the cooking data.

12. A contents management method using a server capable of transmitting contents to a terminal via a communication network, the server including a contents data database storing a plurality of pieces of contents, the method comprising the steps of:

transmitting contents read from the contents data database to a terminal requesting transmission of the contents;

receiving use history data with an appliance adapted to use of the contents for the transmitted contents from the terminal; and

managing use track records of the contents stored in the contents data database based on the use history data received from the terminal.

13. The contents management method of claim 12, wherein the contents are cooking data, and the appliance is a cooking appliance.

14. The contents management method of claim 12, wherein the use history data includes data representing the use frequency of contents for each action.

15. The contents management method of claim 12, wherein the terminal transmits use history data with a plurality of appliances.

16. The contents management method of claim 15, wherein the use history data includes data representing the use frequency of contents for each appliance.

17. A cooking track record management method using a server capable of communicating with a terminal via a communication network, the method comprising the steps of:

receiving use history data with a cooking appliance for cooking data from one terminal; and

managing a use track record of the cooking data based on the use history data received from the terminal.

18. A server capable of transmitting information to a terminal via a communication network,

wherein the server includes a cooking data database storing a plurality of pieces of cooking data, and

the server transmits cooking data read from the cooking data database to a terminal requesting transmission of the cooking data,

receives use history data with a cooking appliance for transmitted cooking data from the terminal, and

manages use track records of the cooking data stored in the cooking data database based on the use history data received from the terminal.

19. A server capable of transmitting information to a terminal via a communication network,

wherein the server includes a contents data database storing a plurality of pieces of contents, and

the server transmits contents read from the contents data database to a terminal requesting transmission of the contents,

receives use history data with an appliance adapted to use of transmitted contents for the transmitted contents from the terminal, and

manages use track records of the contents stored in the contents data database based on the use history data received from the terminal.

20. A cooking appliance comprising:

an operating section;

an input section for reading cooking data; and

an operation-action correspondence database representing the correspondence between the operation performed with the operating section and the action for the cooking data read via the input section,

wherein the use frequency of the cooking data for each action is recorded by referring to the operation-action correspondence database.

21. (Added) A cooking track record management method using a server capable of transmitting information to a terminal via a communication network, the server including a cooking data database for storing a plurality of pieces of cooking data, the method comprising the steps of:

transmitting cooking data read from the cooking data database to a terminal requesting transmission of the cooking data;

receiving use history data with a cooking appliance for transmitted cooking data from the terminal; and

managing use track records of the cooking data stored in the cooking data database for each user based on the use history data received from the terminal.