The Coca-cola Company

Kyusang Kim

Scott M Harrison

Scott Cuppari

Dick P Welch

Joshua Casey Schwarber

Franchot Chang

Michael Edward Hopkins

Hitesh Patel

Mark Adams

Ed Teller

Cindy Pang

A system and method for creating a mixed consumable item may include displaying a first set of selectable indicia on a touchscreen, where the indicia may be (i) indicative of respective consumable ingredients and (ii) distinctly positioned relative to one another. A swype gesture may be received from a user via the touchscreen that forms a path extending between a first position and a second position that touches or passes close to multiple selectable indicia. From the first set of consumable ingredients, a plurality of combinations of consumable ingredients most likely to have been intended to be selected by the user based on the path of the swype gesture may be predicted. Selectable predicted combinations of consumable ingredients may be displayed on the touchscreen to enable one of the selectable combinations of consumable ingredients to be selected by the user for mixing by a dispenser of consumable items.

Selecting and dispensing blended beverages from a post-mix beverage dispenser

In an example embodiment, a beverage vending device is provided that includes a network interface and one or more processors. The beverage vending device also includes a computer-readable tangible medium with instructions stored thereon that direct the one or more processors to establish contact with an available network and locate a second beverage vending device on the network. The computer-readable tangible medium also has instructions stored thereon that direct the one or more processors to establish contact with the second beverage vending device on the network, and communicate with the second beverage vending device via the network.

Beverage vending device networking

Device authentication may be provided. A mobile computing device may read a device ID from a dispensing device (e.g., a beverage dispenser, kiosk, ATM, etc.) wirelessly when the mobile computing device is placed in close proximity to the dispensing device. The mobile computing device may send the device ID along with a user ID to a server in a notification from the mobile computing device. Using the user ID, the server may look up user preferences from a table on the server. User preferences may be sent from the mobile computing device to the server. The server may send the user preferences to the dispensing device that corresponds to the device ID. In response, the dispensing device may display a customized user interface based upon the user preferences.

Dispenser connectivity

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Atlanta, GA, United States of America

Kyusang Kim