Method, system and apparatus for dispensing products for a personal care service, instructing on providing a personal care treatment service, and selecting a personal care service
First Claim
1. A system for dispensing a beauty product formed from a plurality of beauty product components, the system comprising:
- a) a frame;
b) a dispenser supported on said frame having at least one dispensing outlet;
c) a plurality of beauty product components, each of the said beauty product components being contained in a respective container;
d) said dispenser including a plurality of lines, each line of said plurality of lines having a passageway therethrough, each said line communicatively linking one of said plurality of said containers with said dispensing outlet;
e) said dispenser including a control mechanism and a pumping mechanism;
f) wherein said control mechanism regulates the operation of said pumping mechanism to deliver dosages of a plurality of said respective beauty product components to said dispensing outlet to provide a beauty product;
g) wherein sensing and monitoring means is provided to sense an amount of said beauty component present within said container;
h) wherein said sensing and monitoring means comprises an RFID tag provided on each one of said respective containers, and a reader disposed at a reading distance to interrogate said RFID tag;
i) wherein said RFID tags are provided with identification data that identifies each beauty product component container independent of any other beauty product component container,j) wherein the amount of component dispensed from said component container in regard to its respective RFID identification data is monitored and recorded, and wherein said reader communicates said RFID identification data of each said component container to identify each said component container position with respect to a respective pump, said dispensing amount information and said RFID identification data being communicated to a computing component for processing said information to determine the level of beauty product component in said container;
k) wherein said container RFID identification data includes the identification of the beauty product component in said component container, wherein said component container is associated with a pump of said pumping mechanism by associating said component container and said beauty product component contained in said component container, and wherein said pump is designated to deliver dosages of said associated component container based on the identified content of said component container;
l) wherein at least said frame and said dispenser are located in a first location;
m) wherein, when a determination of a level of beauty product component in a container corresponds with a low level, an output is generated, wherein said output comprises at least one of an instruction to check the supply on hand and an instruction for reordering the component;
n) wherein said output instruction to check the supply on hand comprises checking the presence at the first location for one or more additional containers that contain the same beauty product component as the said container determined by said sensing and monitoring means to have a low level of beauty component therein; and
o) wherein checking the presence at said first location is done by issuing a signal to interrogate RFID data information to determine the presence of an inventory consisting of one or more component containers containing the same beauty product component as the container determined to have a low level based on a response from an RFID tag provided on said one or more component containers containing the same beauty product component as the container determined to have a low level of beauty component therein.
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Abstract
A method, system and apparatus for delivery of custom blended dispensing custom blended personal care beauty products for a beauty service, wherein one or more components of a beauty product are stored where they may be supplied as needed to a dispenser, and where a control mechanism regulates the dosage of beauty components to provide a desired selected personal care beauty product with the characteristics selected. A selection screen display provides an image of a person and the person'"'"'s hair that may be manipulated to simulate modifications that may include cut or styling and color or other effects. The selections are processed and stored and a formula is generated and communicating to a dispensing device to deliver the product components to produce the formula.
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Citations
28 Claims
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1. A system for dispensing a beauty product formed from a plurality of beauty product components, the system comprising:
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a) a frame; b) a dispenser supported on said frame having at least one dispensing outlet; c) a plurality of beauty product components, each of the said beauty product components being contained in a respective container; d) said dispenser including a plurality of lines, each line of said plurality of lines having a passageway therethrough, each said line communicatively linking one of said plurality of said containers with said dispensing outlet; e) said dispenser including a control mechanism and a pumping mechanism; f) wherein said control mechanism regulates the operation of said pumping mechanism to deliver dosages of a plurality of said respective beauty product components to said dispensing outlet to provide a beauty product; g) wherein sensing and monitoring means is provided to sense an amount of said beauty component present within said container; h) wherein said sensing and monitoring means comprises an RFID tag provided on each one of said respective containers, and a reader disposed at a reading distance to interrogate said RFID tag; i) wherein said RFID tags are provided with identification data that identifies each beauty product component container independent of any other beauty product component container, j) wherein the amount of component dispensed from said component container in regard to its respective RFID identification data is monitored and recorded, and wherein said reader communicates said RFID identification data of each said component container to identify each said component container position with respect to a respective pump, said dispensing amount information and said RFID identification data being communicated to a computing component for processing said information to determine the level of beauty product component in said container; k) wherein said container RFID identification data includes the identification of the beauty product component in said component container, wherein said component container is associated with a pump of said pumping mechanism by associating said component container and said beauty product component contained in said component container, and wherein said pump is designated to deliver dosages of said associated component container based on the identified content of said component container; l) wherein at least said frame and said dispenser are located in a first location; m) wherein, when a determination of a level of beauty product component in a container corresponds with a low level, an output is generated, wherein said output comprises at least one of an instruction to check the supply on hand and an instruction for reordering the component; n) wherein said output instruction to check the supply on hand comprises checking the presence at the first location for one or more additional containers that contain the same beauty product component as the said container determined by said sensing and monitoring means to have a low level of beauty component therein; and o) wherein checking the presence at said first location is done by issuing a signal to interrogate RFID data information to determine the presence of an inventory consisting of one or more component containers containing the same beauty product component as the container determined to have a low level based on a response from an RFID tag provided on said one or more component containers containing the same beauty product component as the container determined to have a low level of beauty component therein. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A system for dispensing a beauty product formed from a plurality of beauty product components, the system comprising:
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a) a frame; b) a dispenser supported on said frame having at least one dispensing outlet, the dispenser being located at a first location; c) a plurality of beauty product components, each of the said beauty product components being contained in a respective container bag and each container bag being supported on said frame; d) said dispenser including a plurality of lines, each line having a passageway therethrough and communicatively linking one of said respective plurality of container bags with said at least one dispensing outlet; e) said dispenser including a control mechanism; f) said dispenser including a pumping mechanism comprising a plurality of pumps; g) said pumping mechanism being connected to said plurality of lines to regulate the delivery of said plurality of beauty product components from their respective container bags; h) said control mechanism comprising a programmable logic controller and software configured with instructions to operate the pumping mechanism to deliver a desired dosage of at least a plurality of said beauty product components from their respective container bags; i) said pumping mechanism being operated to regulate delivery of said beauty product component from their respective container bags; j) wherein said control mechanism receives an instruction to produce a beauty product, wherein said control mechanism produces a beauty product by regulating the operation of said respective plurality of pumps to deliver dosages of a plurality of beauty product components from their said respective container bags that contain the respective beauty product components; k) a monitoring mechanism including an RFID tag carried on each of the said beauty product component container bags and an RFID reader disposed at a reading distance relative to said frame supported bags and being configured to communicate with a communication component; l) at least one storage component for storing information; m) a communication component configured to communicate information from said reader to said storage component corresponding to each of said RFID tags, wherein the information stored on said storage component is available to a hardware processor; n) a hardware processor; o) software configured with instructions to instruct the hardware processor to process said communicated information and, when said processed information corresponds to a condition identifying one or more of said beauty product components in a said container reaching a low level, said processor is instructed to generate an output;
wherein said output comprises at least one of an instruction to check the supply on hand and an instruction to ship one or more beauty component products corresponding to the said one or more beauty product components whose condition is identified as reaching a low level;p) wherein dosage amounts of at least some of said plurality of beauty product components are delivered with said pumping mechanism from said respective bags in which said components are contained to a receptacle, said dosage amounts when delivered to said receptacle forming a beauty product that is a hair dye; q) a selection system for selecting a color to apply to the hair of a person, the selection system including software, a processor and at least one display on which is generated a plurality of hair colors from which to choose;
said selection system receiving an image of a person that includes at least the person'"'"'s hair and face, said selection system providing on said display an image of the person'"'"'s face and person'"'"'s hair, wherein said person'"'"'s image is transformed on said display based on a selected color to display that selected color on said hair image of said person independently of the image of the person'"'"'s face, the system including a selection option that is displayed on said display for selecting a target color;
said selection system software including instructions to receive a first input that identifies the condition of a person'"'"'s existing hair, to receive a second input of said target color by displaying a selection of color options from which to select the desired target color for the existing hair and receiving a selection of said target color from said selection of color options, to process the information received as the first input and the second input, said processing of said information including generating a formula for said beauty product that produces the target color when applied to the person'"'"'s existing hair;r) wherein said selection system is linked for communication with said control mechanism to communicate said generated formula to said control mechanism; s) wherein said control mechanism operates said pumping mechanism to deliver from at least some of said respective plurality of container bags dosages of at least some of said respective beauty product components in accordance with said formula, and wherein said dosages are delivered to said dispensing outlet to produce a beauty product formed from the at least some of the plurality of said beauty product components. - View Dependent Claims (21)
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22. A system for dispensing a beauty product formed from a plurality of beauty product components, the system comprising:
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a) a frame; b) a dispenser supported on said frame having at least one dispensing outlet; c) a plurality of beauty product components, each of the said beauty product components being contained in a respective container; d) said dispenser including a plurality of lines, each line of said plurality of lines having a passageway therethrough, each said line communicatively linking one of said plurality of said containers with said dispensing outlet; e) said dispenser including a control mechanism and a pumping mechanism; f) wherein said control mechanism regulates the operation of said pumping mechanism to deliver dosages of a plurality of said respective beauty product components to said dispensing outlet to provide a beauty product; g) including an inventory control system associated with each said respective container to provide an alert based on the actual or a perceived content level of said respective beauty product component in said container; h) the inventory control system including an interrogator configured to generate a signal and including a plurality of RFID tags, each one of said plurality of RFID tags respectively associated with one of said plurality of containers; i) wherein each said RFID tag includes RFID information data that identifies the product in the container; j) wherein said inventory control system includes a communication link between said dispenser and a remote computing component through which supplies may be ordered; and k) wherein said RFID information includes temperature information, and wherein said RFID tag includes a temperature sensing element. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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