System and method for nutritional information feedback at the point of sale

• US 20070055573A1
• Filed: 08/31/2005
• Published: 03/08/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Mathew Grell
• Original Assignee: Mathew Grell
• Inventors: Grell, Mathew
• Application Number:
  US11/216,365
• Publication Number:
  US 20070055573A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/24
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/209 Specified transaction journal output feature, e.g. printed receipt or voice output
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions

Abstract

A computer program, method, system and/or apparatus for providing a purchaser, at the point of sale, the nutritional information of the food item(s) the purchaser has selected for purchase. The nutritional feedback method operational at a point of sale, the nutritional feedback method comprising identifying a food item selected for purchase and communicating the nutritional information of said selected food item to the purchaser.

Claims

1. A nutritional feedback method operational at a point of sale, the nutritional feedback method comprising:

identifying a food item selected for purchase; and

communicating the nutritional information of said food item.

2. The nutritional feedback method of claim 1, further comprising:

identifying an alternative food item based on nutritional information of said identified food item.

3. The nutritional feedback method of claim 2, further comprising:

communicating the nutritional information of said alternative food item.

4. The nutritional feedback method of claim 1, further comprising:

identifying a purchaser of said food item.

5. The nutritional feedback method of claim 4, further comprising:

communicating a prior food item purchased by said purchaser.

6. The nutritional feedback method of claim 4, further comprising:

communicating the nutritional information of said prior food item purchased by said purchaser.

7. The nutritional feedback method of claim 4, further comprising:

querying said purchaser to amend said food item selected for purchase with said alternative food item.

8. The nutritional feedback method of claim 4, further comprising:

storing transaction information of said purchase.

9. The nutritional feedback method of claim 4, further comprising:

communicating the nutritional information of said purchase to said purchaser.

10. The nutritional feedback method of claim 8, further comprising:

communicating transaction information of said purchase to said purchaser.

11. The nutritional feedback method of claim 2, further identifying an alternative food item comprising:

comparing the food item identified for purchase to the alternative food items based on nutritional information.

12. A nutritional feedback system operational at a point of sale comprising:

means for identifying a food item selected for purchase,

means for retrieving nutritional information of said food item from a database, and

means for communicating the nutritional information of said food item.

13. The nutritional feedback system of claim 12, further comprising:

means for identifying an alternative food item based on nutritional information of said identified food item.

14. The nutritional feedback system of claim 13, further comprising:

means for communicating the nutritional information of said alternative food item.

15. The nutritional feedback system of claim 12, further comprising:

means for identifying a purchaser of said food item.

16. The nutritional feedback system of claim 15, further comprising:

means for communicating a prior food item purchased by said purchaser.

17. The nutritional feedback system of claim 16, further comprising:

means for communicating the nutritional information of said prior food item purchased by said purchaser.

18. The nutritional feedback system of claim 15, further comprising:

means for querying said purchaser to amend said food item selected for purchase with said alternative food item.

19. The nutritional feedback system of claim 15, further comprising:

means for storing transaction information of said purchase.

20. The nutritional feedback system of claim 15, further comprising:

means for communicating the nutritional information of said purchase.

21. The nutritional feedback system of claim 19, further comprising:

means for communicating transaction information of said purchase to said purchaser.

22. The nutritional feedback system of claim 13, further comprising:

means for comparing a food item identified for purchase to an alternative food item based on said nutritional information.

23. A computer program comprising a combination of code segments stored in a computer-readable memory and executable by a processor to provide nutrition information related to food items, the computer program comprising:

a code segment operable to receive and store an input related to identifying a food item, and to associate the input with a nutritional record; and

a code segment operable to generate an output to an interactive display screen, wherein the interactive display screen displays the nutritional record of said food item.

24. The computer program as set forth in claim 23, further comprising a code segment operable to sum the nutritional information of food items.

25. The computer program as set forth in claim 23, further comprising a code segment operable to generate an alternative food item based on nutritional information of said identified food item.

26. The computer program as set forth in claim 25, further comprising a code segment operable to compare the identified food item to the alternative food items based on nutritional information.

27. The computer program as set forth in claim 25, further comprising a code segment operable to query a purchaser to amend said identified food item with said alternative food item based on nutritional information.

28. A nutritional feedback system operational on a server, the server providing communication between the server and a purchaser, the nutritional feedback system comprising:

a database in communication with the server, the database comprising dietary components of a plurality of food items;

a display screen in communication with the server, the display screen communicating the nutritional information of said food items to said purchaser.

29. The nutritional feedback system of claim 28, further comprising:

means for identifying the food item selected by purchaser.

30. The nutritional feedback system of claim 28, further comprising:

an alternative food item suggestion program for generating suggested modifications of the purchaser'"'"'s food items to improve a dietary composition of the food items based upon the recommended dietary information stored within the database.

31. The nutritional feedback system of claim 28, further comprising:

means for summing the nutritional information of the food items.

32. The nutritional feedback system of claim 28, further comprising:

means for communicating the nutritional information of the food items to the purchaser.