INTERACTIVE CULINARY GAME APPLICATIONS

• US 20150302762A1
• Filed: 04/17/2015
• Published: 10/22/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/18/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Chef Koochooloo, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Chef Koochooloo, Inc.
• Inventors: Sabourian-Tarwe, Layla
• Granted Patent: US 9,728,098 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/12 Hotels or restaurants
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/0092 Nutrition
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/00 Electrically-operated educational appliances working with questions and answers G09B7/00; simulators G09B9/00; advertising or displaying in general G09F
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/02 with visual presentation of the material to be studied, e.g. using film strip
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 7/00 Electrically-operated teaching apparatus or devices working with questions and answers mechanically operated G09B3/00; computing arrangements G06F
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/60 relating to nutrition control, e.g. diets
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation

Abstract

A culinary application enables consumers, such as a parent and a child, to engage in discovering cooking recipes in a fun interactive way while also learning about various topics, including math, science, geography and social responsibility. The culinary application can be focused towards children of various age groups. Consumers engage with the culinary game application in an interactive way to search for recipes based on various user preferences such as a favorite ingredient, a diet, a cooking duration, an ethnic group, a particular country, etc. The culinary application can also present trivia related to a recipe, such as benefits of a particular ingredient in the recipe, information about a country where a dish is popular, math involved in measurements of ingredients, etc. The culinary application can generate separate sets of instructions for a parent and child.

Claims

1. A method performed by a computing system, comprising:

outputting on a display associated with the computing system a plurality of countries;

receiving a user selection of a country of the plurality of countries;

retrieving information regarding a plurality of dishes associated with the country;

receiving a user selection of a dish of the dishes; and

generating a recipe for the dish, the generating including;

generating a first set of instructions including information regarding activities to be performed by a first user of an adult age range, and

generating a second set of instructions including information regarding activities to be performed by a second user of a little chef age range, the first set of instructions and the second of instructions being mutually exclusive.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

generating trivia on a plurality of topics with the recipe, the trivia related to at least one of the country, the dish, an ingredient of the dish, or the recipe.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the topics include at least one of math, science, geography or social responsibility.

4. The method of claim 2 further comprising:

generating the recipe with the trivia, wherein the generating includes;

generating at least a portion of the trivia before the recipe is generated, the portion of the trivia including a link to recipe,

receiving a user selection of the link, and

generating the recipe in response to the user selection of the link.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein generating the trivia includes generating at least a portion of the trivia as a quiz on at least one of the plurality of topics, the quiz eliciting a first response from the second user.

6. The method of claim 5 further comprising:

receiving the response from the second user, and

assigning a score to the second user in response to receiving the first response.

7. The method of claim 2 further comprising:

generating the recipe and the trivia in a graphical user interface (GUI), the GUI generated based on a theme.

8. The method of claim 7 wherein generating the GUI based on the theme includes generating a plurality of multimedia components of the GUI based on at least one of the country, the dish, an ingredient of the dish, or the recipe.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the user selection of the dish includes:

receiving a user selection of a plurality of ingredients,

determining a set of the dishes that include one or more of the ingredients, and

receiving one of the set of the dishes as the dish.

10. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

receiving, from the first or the second user, an image of the dish prepared based on the recipe; and

posting the image to a social networking application of the first user.

11. The method of claim 10 further comprising:

adjusting a score associated with the first user or the second user in response to posting the image to the social networking application.

12. A method performed by a computing system, comprising:

receiving a user selection of a country of a plurality of countries;

retrieving information regarding a plurality of dishes associated with the country;

receiving a user selection of a set of ingredients;

identifying a set of the dishes from the plurality of dishes that includes the set of ingredients;

receiving a user selection of a dish of the set of the dishes;

retrieving trivia on at least one of a plurality of topics based on at least one of the country, the dish or the set of ingredients;

retrieving a recipe for the dish, the recipe including a first set of instructions and a second set of instructions, the first set of instructions and the second of instructions being mutually exclusive; and

generating the trivia and the recipe in a GUI on a computing device, the generating including;

outputting the recipe in the GUI after receiving an indication from the computing device that the trivia presented on at least one of the topics in the GUI is viewed by the second user.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein generating the recipe includes:

generating the first set of instructions to include information regarding activities to be performed by a first user of an adult age range in preparing the dish, and

generating the second set of instructions to include information regarding activities to be performed by a second user of a little chef age range in preparing the dish.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein generating the second set of instructions includes:

generating the second set of instructions to include instructions for the first user to guide the second user in performing the activities for preparing the dish.

15. The method of claim 12, wherein outputting the recipe in the GUI after receiving the indication includes:

generating the trivia with a link,

receiving a user selection of the link associated with the trivia, and

outputting the recipe on the GUI in response to receiving the user selection of the link.

16. A computer-readable storage medium storing computer-readable instructions, the instructions comprising:

instructions for receiving a user selection of a country from a plurality of countries;

instructions for receiving a user selection of a dish from a plurality of dishes associated with the country;

instructions for retrieving trivia on at least one of a plurality of topics based on at least one of the country, the dish or ingredients of the dish;

instructions for retrieving a recipe for the dish, the recipe including a first set of instructions generated for a first user of an adult age range and a second set of instructions generated for a second user of a little chef age range, the first set of instructions and the second of instructions being mutually exclusive; and

instructions for outputting the recipe with trivia on a plurality of topics in a GUI on a computing device, the recipe output in the GUI after the second user has viewed at least a portion of the trivia.

17. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the topics include any of math, science, geography or social responsibility.

18. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the instructions for receiving the user selection of the dish include instructions for:

receiving information regarding an ingredient that is not available with the user,

filtering the dishes to identify a set of the dishes that excludes the ingredient, and

receiving one of the set of the dishes as the dish.

19. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 18, wherein the instructions for receiving the ingredients further include instructions for:

receiving an indication that at least one of the ingredients is unavailable, and

generating, in response to receiving the indication, an order request for purchasing the at least one of the ingredients, the order request generated via a third party application and transmitted to a server associated with the third party application.

20. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the instructions for outputting the recipe and the trivia in the GUI include instructions for:

generating the trivia with a link,

receiving a user selection of the link associated with the trivia, and

outputting the recipe on the GUI in response to receiving the user selection of the link.

21. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the instructions for outputting the recipe and the trivia in the GUI include instructions for:

generating the trivia as a quiz on at least one of the plurality of topics, the quiz eliciting a first response from the second user.

22. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 21 further comprising instructions for:

receiving the first response from the second user, and

assigning a score to the second user in response to receiving the first response.

23. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the instructions for outputting the recipe with trivia in the GUI include instructions for generating GUI based on a theme, the theme determined based on at least one of the country, the dish, an ingredient of the dish, or the recipe.

24. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the instructions for retrieving trivia on at least one of the topics include instructions for generating nutritional information of an ingredient of the dish.

25. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the instructions for retrieving trivia on at least one of the topics include instructions for generating information on the country the dish is associated with.

26. A system, comprising:

a processor;

a first module configured to generate information regarding a plurality of countries in a GUI on a computing device, the first module further configured to receive a user selection of a country of the plurality of countries;

a second module configured to generate information regarding a plurality of ingredients in the GUI, the second module further configured to receive a user selection of one or more of the ingredients;

a third module configured to generate information regarding a plurality of dishes associated with the country and including the one or more of the ingredients in the GUI, the third module further configured to receive a user selection of a dish of the dishes; and

a fourth module configured to retrieve a recipe for the dish, the recipe including a first set of instructions and a second set of instructions, the first set of instructions generated for a first user of an adult age range, the second set of instructions generated for a second user of a little chef age range, the first set of instructions and the second of instructions being mutually exclusive.

27. The system of claim 26 further comprising:

a fifth module configured to retrieve trivia on at least one of a plurality of topics in the GUI, the trivia based on at least one of the country, the dish or the one or more of the ingredients.

28. The system of claim 27 further comprising:

a sixth module configured to generate the trivia and the recipe in the GUI, the sixth module configured to;

output the recipe in the GUI after receiving an indication from the computing device that the trivia on at least one of the topics presented in the GUI is viewed by the second user;

29. The system of claim 26 further comprising:

a fifth module to receive, from the first or the second user, an image of the dish prepared based on the recipe and post the image to a social networking application of the first user.

30. The system of claim 26 further comprising:

a fifth module to determine a score for the second user based on a plurality of activities performed by the second user, the activities including any of (a) answering a quiz of trivia presented in the GUI, the quiz based on at least one of the country, the dish, the recipe or the one or more of the ingredients, (b) posting an image of the dish prepared based on the recipe to a social networking application, or (c) uploading a first recipe for a first dish.

31. The system of claim 26 further comprising:

a fifth module to receive a first recipe of a first dish from the computing device, the fifth module further configured to share the first recipe with a plurality of users in a social networking application.