The Coca-cola Company

David Mulcahey

Arthur G Rudick

Scott Cuppari

John Boyd

Keith A Gibson

Rabab Saqib Karori

Damian J Mycroft

Damian James Reec Mycroft

Akhil Karibandi

Michael Connor

Jason Franz Hejna

Azam Khan

Mira Uchil

The present application provides a beverage dispenser for dispensing a beverage into a cup. The beverage dispenser may include a dispensing area with a nozzle and an optical recognition system. The optical recognition system may include a camera positioned about the dispensing area.

Beverage dispenser with dispensing area cameras

A beverage dispenser maintains a profile queue with profile data of 'close' consumer mobile computing devices. Each profile in the profile queue maintains one or more beverages previously selected by a consumer, such as favorite beverage(s), mixed or blended beverages, and/or past or future beverage order(s). Each profile in the profile queue is additionally associated with a profile identifier, such as a name, screen name, social media picture, avatar, alphanumeric identifier, other such text or graphics recognizable by a consumer to be associated with their corresponding profile. Upon navigation to an appropriate screen on the beverage dispenser, a display on the beverage dispenser shows the profile identifiers or one or more of the previously selected beverages in the profiles of “close” consumer mobile computing devices. In this way, a consumer is able to quickly access their previously selected beverages without actively manipulating their mobile device.

Remote beverage selection with a beverage dispenser

A beverage dispenser and method for operating a beverage dispenser may include receiving a handshake request from a mobile device of a user. A communications link may be established with the mobile device. Responsive to receiving control data associated with a beverage order from the mobile device, a physical function may be caused to be performed by the beverage dispenser.

System and method for choosing and pouring beverages

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David Mulcahey