Interactive culinary game applications

• US 9,728,098 B2
• Filed: 04/17/2015
• Issued: 08/08/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 04/18/2014
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Chef Koochooloo, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Chef Koochooloo, Inc.
• Inventors: Sabourian-Tarwe, Layla
• Primary Examiner(s): Gishnock, Nikolai A
• Application Number:
  US14/690,137
• Publication Number:
  US 20150302762A1
• Time in Patent Office: 844 Days
• Field of Search: 434127
• 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 information regarding a plurality of countries in an application;

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;

retrieving, by the computing system, a recipe template based on the user selection, wherein the recipe template includes a list of ingredients, directions to prepare the dish, and trivia on a plurality of topics, the trivia related to at least one of the country, the dish, an ingredient of the dish, or the recipe; and

adapting, by the computing system, the recipe template and the trivia to the second user, wherein the adapting includes;

identifying, in the recipe template, a first set of activities to be performed by a first user of an adult age range for preparing the dish,

identifying, in the recipe template, a second set of activities to be performed by a second user of a child age range for preparing the dish, wherein the second set of activities is different from the first set of activities and are to be performed by the second user under the supervision of the first user, and

determining, by the computing system, a content of the trivia that is suitable to the first user and that is suitable to the second user, wherein the determining includes generating a first description of the trivia that is suitable to the age range of the second user and a second description of the trivia that is suitable to the adult age range of the first user,

configuring, by the computing system, a look and feel of a graphical user interface (GUI) to suit an age range of the second user, and

generating, by the computing system, a recipe for the dish and the trivia in the GUI, the recipe including the first set of activities and the second set of activities, the trivia including the first description and the second description.

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

3. The method of claim 1, wherein generating the recipe and the trivia 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.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein generating the recipe and 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.

5. The method of claim 4 further comprising:

receiving the response from the second user, and

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

6. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

generating the GUI based on a theme.

7. The method of claim 6 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. The method of claim 9 further comprising:

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

11. 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 activities to be performed by a first user of an adult age range for preparing the dish and a second set of activities to be performed by a second user of a child age range for preparing the dish, wherein the second set of activities is different from the first set of activities; and

generating, by the computing system, the trivia and the recipe in a GUI on a computing device by adapting the recipe to the second user, the adapting including;

changing, by the computing system, a look and feel of the GUI to suit an age range of the second user, and

formatting, by the computing system, the trivia to generate (a) a first description of the trivia that is suitable to the adult age range of the first user and (b) a second description of the trivia that is suitable to the age range of the second user, and

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.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein generating the trivia and the recipe includes:

generating information that includes instructions for the first user to guide the second user in performing the activities for preparing the dish.

13. The method of claim 11, 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.

14. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing computer-readable instructions, the instructions comprising:

instructions for receiving, by a server computing device, a user selection of a country from a plurality of countries;

instructions for receiving, by the server computing device, a user selection of a dish from a plurality of dishes associated with the country;

instructions for retrieving, by the server computing device, 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, by the server computing device, a recipe for the dish, the recipe including a first set of activities to be performed by a first user of an adult age range for preparing the dish and a second set of activities to be performed by a second user of a child age range for preparing the dish, wherein the second set of activities is different from the first set of activities and are activities that are to be performed by the second user under the supervision of the first user; and

instructions for outputting, by the server computing device, the recipe with trivia on a plurality of topics in a GUI on a client computing device by adapting the recipe to the second user, the recipe output in the GUI after the second user has viewed at least a portion of the trivia, the adapting including;

changing, by the server computing device, a look and feel of the GUI to suit an age range of the second user, and

formatting, by the server computing device, the trivia to generate (a) a first description of the trivia that is suitable to the adult age range of the first user and (b) a second description of the trivia that is suitable to the age range of the second user.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 14, wherein the topics include any of math, science, geography or social responsibility.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 14, wherein the instructions for receiving the user selection of the dish include instructions for:

receiving information regarding an ingredient that is available with the user,

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

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

17. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 14, wherein the instructions for receiving the user selection of the dish 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.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 14, 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.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 14, 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.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 19 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.

21. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 14, 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.

22. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 14, 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.

23. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 14, 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.

24. A system, comprising:

a processor;

a parameters module configured to;

generate information regarding a plurality of countries in a GUI on a computing device and receive a user selection of a country of the plurality of countries,

generate information regarding a plurality of ingredients in the GUI and receive a user selection of one or more of the ingredients, and

generate information regarding a plurality of dishes associated with the country in the GUI and receive a user selection of a dish of the dishes, wherein the plurality of dishes are dishes that include one or more of the ingredients;

a search module configured to retrieve a recipe for the dish, the recipe including a first set of activities to be performed by a first user of an adult age range for preparing the dish and a second set of activities to be performed by a second user of a child age range for preparing the dish, wherein the second set of activities is different from the first set of activities and are activities that are to be performed by the second user under the supervision of the first user; and

a recipe generation module configured to generate the recipe in the GUI by adapting the recipe to the second user, wherein the recipe generation module is configured to adapt the recipe by;

changing a look and feel of the GUI to suit an age range of the second user; and

a trivia generation module configured to generate trivia associated with the recipe in the GUI by adapting the trivia to the second user, wherein the trivia generation module is configured to adapt the trivia by;

formatting the trivia to generate (a) a first description of the trivia that is suitable to the adult age range of the first user and (b) a second description of the trivia that is suitable to the age range of the second user.

25. The system of claim 24, wherein the search module is configured to retrieve the trivia on at least one of a plurality of topics the trivia based on at least one of the country, the dish or the one or more of the ingredients.

26. The system of claim 25, wherein the recipe generation module is configured to generate the recipe in the GUI after receiving an indication from the client computing device that the trivia on at least one of the topics presented in the GUI is viewed by the second user.

27. The system of claim 24 further comprising:

a content sharing module configured 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.

28. The system of claim 24 further comprising:

a score determination 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.

29. The system of claim 24 further comprising:

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