Guideline-Based Food Purchase Management

• US 20120310758A1
• Filed: 06/01/2011
• Published: 12/06/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/01/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Bai, Kun, Li, Ming, Liu, Leslie S., Ye, Fan, Zeng, Liangzhao, Zhu, Xinxin
• Granted Patent: US 9,092,811 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/23
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0205 Location or geographical consideration
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0633 Lists, e.g. purchase orders, compilation or processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0643 Graphical representation of items or shoppers
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/60 relating to nutrition control, e.g. diets

Abstract

Techniques for guideline-based food purchase management are provided. The techniques include generating a personalized set of nutrition guidelines for a user, generating a user profile for the user, wherein the user profile comprises health information and nutrition preferences, and using the personalized set of nutrition guidelines and the user profile to generate a guideline-based shopping list for the user. Techniques for generating location-based food purchase guidance are also provided. The techniques include obtaining a shopping list of food items and a list of stores to be considered in connection with the food items on the shopping list, using the shopping list, list of stores, a store location map and inter-store routing guidance to generate an inter-store shopping route, and generating an in-store shopping route, for each of the stores in the inter-store shopping route, based on the shopping list, intra-store routing guidance and a floor plan for the store.

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13. A computer program product comprising a tangible computer readable recordable storage medium including computer useable program code for guideline-based food purchase management, the computer program product including:

computer useable program code for generating a personalized set of one or more nutrition guidelines for a user;

computer useable program code for generating a user profile for the user, wherein the user profile comprises health information and one or more nutrition preferences; and

computer useable program code for using the personalized set of one or more nutrition guidelines and the user profile to generate a guideline-based shopping list for the user.

33. The computer program product of claim 13, wherein generating a personalized set of one or more nutrition guidelines and generating a user profile comprise using Web-enabled questionnaires to collect and assess information pertaining to the user.

34. The computer program product of claim 33, wherein generating a personalized set of one or more nutrition guidelines further comprises using an assessment of the information to select an appropriate set of one or more nutrition guidelines from a nutrition guideline repository.

35. The computer program product of claim 34, wherein generating a user profile further comprises using an assessment of the information and the appropriate set of one or more nutrition guidelines to generate the user profile.

36. The computer program product of claim 13, wherein using the personalized set of one or more nutrition guidelines and the user profile to generate a guideline-based shopping list comprises using information pertaining to availability of one or more selected food markets based on the personalized set of one or more nutrition guidelines.

37. The computer program product of claim 13, wherein using the personalized set of one or more nutrition guidelines and the user profile to generate a guideline-based shopping list comprises accessing a food market supply list repository and dividing candidate food into one or more categories such that food in a same category is interchangeable.

38. The computer program product of claim 13, wherein generating the guideline-based shopping list further comprises using additional user input pertaining to at least one of user budget, travel distance of one or more stores, user preference of one or more stores, and available coupons from one or more stores.

39. The computer program product of claim 13, wherein generating the guideline-based shopping list further comprises facilitating a user to interactively select one or more items to purchase, and updating a food compliance report in real-time and providing one or more food suggestions to the user based on the one or more selected items.

40. The computer program product of claim 39, wherein updating a food compliance report in real-time comprises using a nutrition fact calculator to compute a total nutrition fact based on the one or more selected items and input from a nutrition fact database.

41. The computer program product of claim 13, wherein using the personalized set of one or more nutrition guidelines and the user profile to generate a guideline-based shopping list comprises accessing a food market supply list repository and filtering out one or more foods that are not suitable for the user.

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24. A computer program product comprising a tangible computer readable recordable storage medium including computer useable program code for generating location-based food purchase guidance, the computer program product including:

computer useable program code for obtaining a shopping list of one or more food items and a list of one or more stores to be considered in connection with the one or more food items on the shopping list;

computer useable program code for using the shopping list, list of one or more stores, a store location map and inter-store routing guidance to generate an inter-store shopping route; and

computer useable program code for generating an in-store shopping route, for each of the one or more stores in the inter-store shopping route, based on the shopping list of one or more food items, intra-store routing guidance and a floor plan for the store.

42. The computer program product of claim 24, wherein generating an in-store shopping route further comprises using one or more user preferences in connection with the intra-store guidance.

25. A system for guideline-based nutrition management, comprising:

a memory; and

at least one processor coupled to the memory and operative to;

use user-provided information and nutrition information to generate a set of one or more personalized nutrition guidelines for a user;

use the user-provided information and the set of one or more personalized nutrition guidelines for the user to generate a user profile, wherein the user profile comprises health information and one or more nutrition preferences;

use the personalized set of one or more nutrition guidelines and the user profile to generate a guideline-based shopping list for the user;

use the guideline-based shopping list, a list of one or more stores, a store location map and inter-store routing guidance to generate an inter-store shopping route;

generate an in-store shopping route, for each of the one or more stores in the inter-store shopping route, based on the guideline-based shopping list, intra-store routing guidance and a floor plan for the store; and

perform nutrition compliance tracking for the user based on one or more tracked food items and one or more tracked exercise activities.

26. The system of claim 25, wherein generating a personalized set of one or more nutrition guidelines and generating a user profile comprise using Web-enabled questionnaires to collect and assess information pertaining to the user.

27. The system of claim 25, wherein using the personalized set of one or more nutrition guidelines and the user profile to generate a guideline-based shopping list comprises using information pertaining to availability of one or more selected food markets based on the personalized set of one or more nutrition guidelines.

29. The system of claim 25, wherein using the personalized set of one or more nutrition guidelines and the user profile to generate a guideline-based shopping list comprises accessing a food market supply list repository and dividing candidate food into one or more categories such that food in a same category is interchangeable.

30. The system of claim 25, wherein generating the guideline-based shopping list further comprises using additional user input pertaining to at least one of user budget, travel distance of one or more stores, user preference of one or more stores, and available coupons from one or more stores.

31. The system of claim 25, wherein generating the guideline-based shopping list further comprises facilitating a user to interactively select one or more items to purchase, and updating a food compliance report in real-time and providing one or more food suggestions to the user based on the one or more selected items.

32. The system of claim 25, wherein using the personalized set of one or more nutrition guidelines and the user profile to generate a guideline-based shopping list comprises accessing a food market supply list repository and filtering out one or more foods that are not suitable for the user.