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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Patent No.:

US 10262352 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 2019

Filed:

Mar. 07, 2014

Directing one or more users to one or more automated customized food generation machines

Applicant:

Elwha Llc, Bellevue, WA (US);

Inventors:

Pablos Holman, Seattle, WA (US);

Roderick A. Hyde, Redmond, WA (US);

Muriel Y. Ishikawa, Livermore, CA (US);

Jordin T. Kare, Seattle, WA (US);

Max R. Levchin, San Francisco, CA (US);

Royce A. Levien, Lexington, MA (US);

Richard T. Lord, Gig Harbor, WA (US);

Robert W. Lord, Seattle, WA (US);

Mark A. Malamud, Seattle, WA (US);

Nathan P. Myhrvold, Bellevue, WA (US);

Robert C. Petroski, Seattle, WA (US);

Clarence T. Tegreene, Mercer Island, WA (US);

Charles Whitmer, North Bend, WA (US);

Lowell L. Wood, Jr., Bellevue, WA (US);

Victoria Y. H. Wood, Livermore, CA (US);

Assignee:

Elwha LLC, Bellevue, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:

Nathan C Uber

Assistant Examiner:

Fawaad Haider

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/06 (2012.01); G06Q 50/10 (2012.01); G06Q 50/12 (2012.01); G07F 11/00 (2006.01); G07F 17/00 (2006.01); G07F 9/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/0621 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0633 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0635 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0639 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0641 (2013.01); G06Q 50/10 (2013.01); G06Q 50/12 (2013.01); G07F 9/023 (2013.01); G07F 11/002 (2013.01); G07F 17/0064 (2013.01);
Abstract

Computationally implemented methods and systems include acquiring user preference information of a user that indicates one or more customized food preferences of the user including at least one or more preferences related to integrity of one or more ingredients for use in generating one or more customized food items; identifying one or more capable automated customized food generation machines that have one or more ingredients in one or more sufficient quantities to be able to currently generate at least one customized food item in accordance with the one or more customized food preferences of the user; and presenting, in response at least in part to the identification, one or more indicators that direct the user to at least one automated customized food generation machine. In addition to the foregoing, other aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text.

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