MONITORING BEVERAGE DISPENSING USING POUR EVENT DATA AND RING UP DATA
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1. A method for monitoring beverage dispensing from a container comprising:
- receiving ring up data for a transaction of the beverage dispensing;
determining one or more beverage brands from a selected drink recipe using the ring up data; and
matching the ring up data with at least one of a plurality of pour event data entries using the determined one or more beverage brands, wherein each of the plurality of pour event data entries is obtained independently of the ring up data.
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Abstract
A system and method for monitoring beverage dispensing from a container. Independently obtained data from a pour event and ring up are matched using a recipe database. The method involves receiving ring up data for a transaction of the beverage dispensing, determining one or more beverage brands from a selected drink recipe using the ring up data and matching the ring up data with at least one of a plurality of pour event data entries using the determined one or more beverage brands, wherein each of the plurality of pour event data entries is obtained independently of the ring up data.
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1. A method for monitoring beverage dispensing from a container comprising:
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receiving ring up data for a transaction of the beverage dispensing; determining one or more beverage brands from a selected drink recipe using the ring up data; and matching the ring up data with at least one of a plurality of pour event data entries using the determined one or more beverage brands, wherein each of the plurality of pour event data entries is obtained independently of the ring up data. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A method for monitoring beverage dispensing from a container comprising:
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identifying two or more pour event data entries each having a same beverage brand that occur within a time window and one of the two or more pour event data entries has a volume that is less than a short pour size, wherein the time window is based on a first ring up data entry; creating a composite pour from the two or more identified pour event data entries; and matching the composite pour with a second ring up data entry. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A method of monitoring beverage dispensing from a container comprising:
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determining that the number of two or more ring up data entries for a same beverage brand exceeds the number of pour event data entries for the same beverage brand in a time window based on at least one of the two or more ring up data entries; combining volumes of all of the pour event data entries in the time window having the same beverage brand; creating two or more pours from the combined volume, each of the two or more split pours have a same volume; and matching each of the two or more split pours to each of the two or more ring up data entries. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20)
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