×

Recipe suggestion system and method

  • US 9,275,393 B2
  • Filed: 12/18/2012
  • Issued: 03/01/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/18/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
First Claim
Patent Images

1. A computer-implemented method for suggesting a recipe to a consumer comprising the steps of:

  • receiving identities of items being purchased by a consumer at a checkout station and storing the identities in a consumer purchase history database including identities of items previously purchased by the consumer, each of the identities of items including an associated purchase date;

    receiving, with a processing device of a recipe suggestion server, a recipe request signal from the consumer after said storing step;

    determining, for each of the identities of items stored in the consumer purchase database, a probability that the corresponding item is usable as a function of the purchase date associated with the corresponding item and a date associated with the received recipe request;

    maintaining, in a recipe database, a plurality of recipes wherein each recipe is defined by a plurality of ingredients;

    comparing, with the processing device, the identities of items purchased by the consumer with the respective plurality of ingredients associated with one or more of the plurality of recipes and selecting a set of recipes as a function of the identities of items purchased by the consumer and each associated probability that the corresponding item is usable;

    determining if one or more of the recipes included in the selected set of recipes has been previously rejected by the consumer and modifying the selected set of recipes to remove the rejected recipes;

    andtransmitting, with the processing device, at least one of the recipes included in the modified selected set of recipes to the consumer wherein the plurality of ingredients of the at least one of the recipes included in the modified selected set of recipes is correlated with the identities of items previously purchased by the consumer.

View all claims
  • 2 Assignments
Timeline View
Assignment View
    ×
    ×