The Coca-cola Company

Scott M Harrison

Daniel S Quartarone

David J Harvey

Jae Ho Cha

Simon Alan Daniel

Kris Tomasson

Christopher Michael Weston

Gregg Carpenter

Robert Burton Brownell, Jr

Lawrence E Davis

Claudio Ponzio

Joshua Casey Schwarber

Marc Katz

Zersis Mehar Mehta

Udayan Joshi

Matthew Arnwine

Jevawn Sebastian Roberts

Scott Cuppari

Benjamin John Kingston

Franchot Chang

Stan C Kaplita

Akhil Karibandi

Christopher J Dennis

Kyusang Kim

Hitesh Patel

Chetan Polavaram

Thomas Stubbs

Tao Peng

Christopher Dennis

A consumable item dispenser and method may include an ingredient storage unit configured to store a consumable ingredient used to produce consumable items by the dispenser. A sensor may be configured to sense an amount of consumable ingredient remaining to be dispensed. An input/output unit may be configured to communicate data over a communications network. A processing unit may be in communication with the sensor, and be configured to authenticate an electronic device associated with an operator and register the electronic device associated with the operator. A determination as to whether an amount of the ingredient in the ingredient storage unit is at or below a threshold level. The processing unit may generate a notification indicative that the ingredient is at or below a threshold level, and communicate the notification to the operator in response to being generated.

Proactive dispenser to operator mobile alert system

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

One embodiment may include a machine for providing beverages. The machine may include a reader configured to read data representative of an available balance for a user to obtain beverages from the machine from a machine-readable medium and electronics. The electronics may be configured to receive the data from the machine-readable medium in response to the user positioning the machine-readable medium within reading distance of the reader, enable the user to dispense a beverage into a vessel, and update the available balance of the machine-readable medium so as to reduce or prevent the user from dispensing unlimited beverages.

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Beverage dispenser drawer

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Atlanta, GA, United States of America

Scott M Harrison