INDIVIDUALLY MIXED PET FEED SUPPLY SYSTEM
First Claim
1. A system for supplying custom-mixed pet food for mixing, with granular dried food, granular processed nutrients and medication(s) corresponding to the size, health condition, of a pet, comprising:
- a pet owner'"'"'s communications terminal,a computer of an animal hospital to which the pet owner has been referred by someone, or an animal hospital to which the pet owner regularly takes his/her pet,a mixing device for mixing said nutrients and medications with food, anda custom-mixed-pet-food prescription control computer system having at leasta food-order accepting means, which receives via the Internet from said pet owner'"'"'s communications terminal a request for supplying custom-mixed pet-food, and which transmits an online order form to said pet owner'"'"'s communications terminal,a pet-food-order-entry/prescription-request transmission means, which receives said online order form into which order data is entered from the pet owner'"'"'s communications terminal, records said order data in a database, and transmits a prescription-entry form having a predetermined format and containing a list of nutrients and/or medication(s) to be mixed with food to a computer of a hospital specified in said online order form if the pet owner regularly takes the pet to a particular animal hospital,a pet owner referral/prescription-request transmission means which transmits, if the pet owner does not regularly take the pet to any animal hospital—
a letter-of-referral form that refers the pet owner to a hospital selected by the pet owner, with said prescription-entry form having a predetermined format to be completed when the pet owner and his/her pet visit the hospital—
to a computer of a hospital selected from a list of animal hospitals on said online order form, anda prescription/mixed-food data-transmission means that (a) reads—
when receiving the prescription-entry form having a predetermined format for data entry from said animal hospital that the pet owner regularly visits or to which the pet owner has been referred by said online order form—
selection check marks in respective item spaces at predefined positions of the prescription, then (b) records data relating to the kind and weights of the nutrients and/or medication(s) to be mixed with food by converting the data into data value, and then (c) transmits the data value to said mixing device via a LAN line, resulting in the manufacture of the custom-mixed pet food based on the data value.
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Abstract
It used to be difficult to automatically mix—together with ordinary pet foods—nutrients and medications as additives based on a prescription from an animal hospital according to the condition of a pet. Also, it was not easy to submit from a personal computer or a mobile phone an order for custom-mixed pet food. This system easily receives, via the Internet from a personal computer 1 or a mobile phone 2, an order for custom-mixed pet food based on a prescription sent to a custom-mixed-pet-food prescription control computer system 4 that electronically controls a mixing device 5 that automatically produces custom-mixed pet food according to mixing data specified by an pet owner'"'"'s order and prescription from an animal hospital. The system comprises a pet-owner-user'"'"'s personal computer 1, a mobile phone 2, the Internet 9, a custom-mixed-pet-food prescription control computer system 4, a computer 3 of an animal hospital, a Web server 4a, an application server 4b, a database server 4c, a stored data input/output processing management terminal 4d, an interface circuit 4e, and a mixing device 5.
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6 Claims
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1. A system for supplying custom-mixed pet food for mixing, with granular dried food, granular processed nutrients and medication(s) corresponding to the size, health condition, of a pet, comprising:
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a pet owner'"'"'s communications terminal, a computer of an animal hospital to which the pet owner has been referred by someone, or an animal hospital to which the pet owner regularly takes his/her pet, a mixing device for mixing said nutrients and medications with food, and a custom-mixed-pet-food prescription control computer system having at least a food-order accepting means, which receives via the Internet from said pet owner'"'"'s communications terminal a request for supplying custom-mixed pet-food, and which transmits an online order form to said pet owner'"'"'s communications terminal, a pet-food-order-entry/prescription-request transmission means, which receives said online order form into which order data is entered from the pet owner'"'"'s communications terminal, records said order data in a database, and transmits a prescription-entry form having a predetermined format and containing a list of nutrients and/or medication(s) to be mixed with food to a computer of a hospital specified in said online order form if the pet owner regularly takes the pet to a particular animal hospital, a pet owner referral/prescription-request transmission means which transmits, if the pet owner does not regularly take the pet to any animal hospital—
a letter-of-referral form that refers the pet owner to a hospital selected by the pet owner, with said prescription-entry form having a predetermined format to be completed when the pet owner and his/her pet visit the hospital—
to a computer of a hospital selected from a list of animal hospitals on said online order form, anda prescription/mixed-food data-transmission means that (a) reads—
when receiving the prescription-entry form having a predetermined format for data entry from said animal hospital that the pet owner regularly visits or to which the pet owner has been referred by said online order form—
selection check marks in respective item spaces at predefined positions of the prescription, then (b) records data relating to the kind and weights of the nutrients and/or medication(s) to be mixed with food by converting the data into data value, and then (c) transmits the data value to said mixing device via a LAN line, resulting in the manufacture of the custom-mixed pet food based on the data value. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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