Patent Application
20170099981
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Field of the Invention
This invention relates to improvements in a hot and cold beverage dispenser. More particularly, the present hot and cold beverage dispenser integrates a personal computing device with a tablet or android computing platform on any coffee machine (Home, commercial or vending) as well as any dispensing machine for hot and cold beverages.
Description of Related Art Including Information Disclosed Under 37 CFR 1.97 and 1.98.
Each person has a different taste, when it comes to beverages and/or food and each person would like to personalize his or her recipes. Studies have shown that no two tastes are the same. It is time to present to the customer the possibility to customize his beverage, moreover to save them for further use at his convenience and the ability to change/modify when desired.
Creating an intuitive user interface for a hot and cold beverage dispenser such as a coffee machine is not an easy task especially when the machine should function as a normal computer with of the expected computing capabilities. Capacitive Touch screens are considered the standard for simple user touch interface and most users expect the same simple touch screen user interface in nearly all aspects of machines they use and interface with.
Today a large percentage of machines are cloud connected and accessible to the user/operator with unlimited access to all machine settings and functionalities as well as for sales reports and all type of statistics related to sales, users, stock management, etc. . . . . With these cloud connected devices, years of test and debugging were spent to deliver the user a home appliance or a commercial appliance of the 3rd millennium standard, ensuring his convenience and widening his choices when choosing his beverages.
The complex database structure that keeps track of every customer's profile, and for every profile its picture, products and recipes for each product, the interactivity using a Web cam, microphone and live video chatting, makes the integration of Android in a Coffee machine or any Hot or Cold dispensing beverage machine is not found in hot and cold beverage dispensers.
A number of patents and or publications have been made to address these issues. Exemplary examples of patents and or publication that try to address this/these problem(s) are identified and discussed below.
U.S. Published application 20120164422 was published on Jun. 27, 2013 for Arren J. McCormick discloses a Coffee Maker Supporting Single Serve & Carafe Operations. There are a number of coffee makers that produce just a single cup of coffee that is made from a single serving concentrated liquid coffee concentrate. This publication creates a bridge between a coffee machine that prepares a single cup and a full pot of coffee. While this publication discloses a machine that can produce one or several cups of coffee, it does not have a user interface that remembers the user preference for the coffee.
U.S. Published application 2012/0037008 was published on Feb. 16, 2012 to Nelson Antonio Rodriguez discloses a Programmable Multiple Ingredient Dispensing Coffee Maker with Customizable Settings for Multiple Individual Preferences. This application discloses a coffee maker that can dispense multiple ingredients into the coffee that is being prepared, but a user must program the coffee maker each time they brew a separate cup.
U.S. Published application 2004/0118294 was published on Jun. 24, 2004 for Wade L. Grassedonio discloses a Semi-automated Coffee Maker. The coffee make uses a bank of separate coffee chambers that index to fill a coffee pot multiple times. The automated portion of the coffee maker still required a user to pre-install multiple coffee packets prior to use of the coffee machine.
What is needed is a hot and cold beverage dispenser that covers the use of any liquid cartridge, in any form in order to dispense Flavors, Syrup, Liquid sugar of all kinds, and tea essence in the coffee dispenser. A tablet computer will be used to run the machine as well as to offer all the facilities of a computer or a tablet. The proposed hot and cold beverage dispenser provides a solution to this problem.
It is an object of the integrated tablet computer in a hot and cold dispensing machine to integrate an android platform computing device onto a coffee machine (Home, commercial or Vending) as well as any dispensing machine for hot and cold beverages. Also offering internet connectivity and transforming the dispensing machine into a “Smart Multifunctional Dispensing” machine is an objective.
It is another object of the integrated tablet computer in a hot and cold dispensing machine for the android based computer to run the machine as well as to offer all the facilities of a computer or a fully functional tablet like but not limited to executing commands and dispensing recipes, creating, deleting and editing profiles, change the system settings, connection to the internet, access to social media networks, playing publicity (whether pushed adds or online, makes the dispensing/coffee machine more attractive and can transmit useful information to the user while waiting for brewing/dispensing his drink), registering audio/video messages, reading QR codes via built in cam or an external reader, reading boarding pass codes used in airlines companies for identifying the user and communicating with Smart App via QR Code and/or Blue Tooth and/or NFC device or by a Boarding pass code in an airport, will help retrieving the user's profile from remote server immediately so that he can have his preferred drink.
Accordingly, it is a main target of the present Utility Invention to provide an improved interface for the dispensing machine user to customize his or her drinks and saving them for future use.
It is still another object of the integrated tablet in a hot and cold dispensing machine for the cartridges to be are operated by special peristaltic pumps that prevent cross contamination.
Various objects, features, aspects, and advantages of the present invention will become more apparent from the following detailed description of preferred embodiments of the invention, along with the accompanying drawings in which like numerals represent like components.
A machine that can operate the concept of a dispensed coffee called “Hug in a Mug” in the Callisto System, where the end user can send via his mobile app a “Paid Voucher” that will be printed on a special Ticket operated by NGO in third world countries or in Locations where poor people can get benefit of it. The beneficiary of the Ticket goes to the Machine, scans his Ticket for verification, the machine will dispense the drink and takes a snapshot or video of the beneficiary and sends it back to the user by thanking him on behalf of the NGO and showing a picture/video of the beneficiary.
The system includes a machine server 40 connected through a cloud interface 73 to a payment server, through a cloud interface to a customer server 60. The smart device 20 communicated through the cloud 72 to the payment server 50 and though the cloud 70 to a customer server 60.
Any machine models 90 of hot or cold dispensing machines, such as Troffee, Mika, Prodigy and Preferences communicates through the cloud 75 or through a wireless connection 80 to the machine server to obtain the preferences of a user and also to identify when servicing of a machine is required. The machines 40 can also communicate through the cloud 74 or wirelessly to the payment server 50.
Thus, specific embodiments of a hot and cold Uber Café Callisto product family beverage dispensing machine has been disclosed. It should be apparent, however, to those skilled in the art that many more modifications besides those described are possible without departing from the inventive concepts herein. The inventive subject matter, therefore, is not to be restricted except in the spirit of the appended claims.
This application claims the benefit of Provisional Application Ser. No. 62/238,909 filed Oct. 8, 2016 the entire contents of which is hereby expressly incorporated by reference herein.
| Number | Date | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 62238909 | Oct 2015 | US |
