Patent Application
20180240357
This application claims priority to European application EP 17157385.0 filed 22 Feb. 2017, the contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference as if set forth in their entirety.
The present invention relates, in general, to the field of the cooking appliances. In particular, present invention relates to a method, and to a system and computers programs products, for handling remote control of a cooking appliance to provide a customized diet via a cloud-computing infrastructure.
From patent documents EP-A1-2822226, US-A1-2013003490, EP-B1-1561409, EP-A-2874031 and US-A1-2008178749, among other documents related with cooking appliance, systems and methods are known for processing and preparing foods by means of receiving control instructions comprising preparations parameters for a recipe from remote computing devices via an intermediate server such as a cloud computer server.
Besides, from document WO-A2-2016102235 it is known a food processor, in particular a mixing device, which can cooperate with a weighting device, in which information on body-specific parameters of a user will be forwarded directly to the food processor
None of the current documents found in the state of the art, however, teach or suggest, a method, and a system, planned to for each of a plurality of users, handling remote control of a cooking appliance of each user to provide a customized diet, in which said customized diet is created/prepared by a cloud computer server based on physiological parameters acquired of the users by one or more measuring devices.
To that end, embodiments of the present invention provide according to a first aspect a method for handling remote control of a cooking appliance to provide a customized diet.
The method comprises storing by a cloud computer server one or more recipes including some food preparation parameters for one or more cooking appliances having a communication unit providing interconnection with the cloud computer server via a communications network.
Unlike the know proposals in the field, in the proposed method, the cloud computer server further comprises: receiving, via said communications network, one or more parameters of a plurality of users acquired by at least one measuring device such as a fitness sensor wearable device, a weighting device/scale, a glucose sensor, a pressure sensor, a thermometer, etc.; creating, a customized diet plan for each of said plurality of users based on the received one or more parameters and the stored recipes; receiving, identification data (such as a serial number or an identification number) of a particular cooking appliance of a given user of said plurality of users via said communication network; and transmitting, control instructions comprising a recipe, as a part of the diet plan, to an information interface integrated in said particular cooking appliance of said given user or in a communications terminal of said given user.
According to the proposed method, the one or more parameters may include: glucose level, blood pressure, weight, body mass index, temperature, burnt calories, heartbeat, among others.
According to an embodiment, the identification data of said particular cooking appliance is sent by the user communications terminal during a login operation of the user in the cooking appliance. Preferably, the login operation is executed by a software application installed in the user communications terminal.
Alternatively, according to another embodiment, the identification data of said particular cooking appliance is sent by the communication unit of the cooking appliance upon the user having performed a login operation in the cooking appliance.
According to another embodiment, the cloud computer server also compares the one or more parameters it has received with a threshold (or thresholds) and further adapts the customized diet plan depending on the result of said comparison.
According to another embodiment, the cloud computer server when the one or more parameters are above the threshold (or thresholds) also includes a warning for the user to indicate a non-healthy state of the latter. Preferably, this is done at the same time of the transmission of the control instructions; however it can also be done later.
Other embodiments of the invention that are disclosed herein include a system and software programs to perform the method embodiment steps and operations summarized above and disclosed in detail below. More particularly, a computer program product is one embodiment that has a computer-readable medium including computer program instructions encoded thereon that when executed on at least one processor in a computer system causes the processor to perform the operations indicated herein as embodiments of the invention.
The above and other advantages and characteristics will be more fully understood from the following detailed description of embodiments with reference to the attached drawings, which must be taken by way of illustration, not limitation, wherein:
The cloud computer server 30 (i.e. a computer server located in a cloud computing infrastructure, or part thereof, or even a plurality of computing entities cooperating with one another), is configured to store recipes including food preparation parameters for said different cooking appliances 20 of a plurality of users. The recipes preferably have associated its nutritional content. It should be noted that although in
Preferably, the cloud computer server 30 receives said recipes for each different cooking appliance 20 from a specific software application ('App'), which can be installed in a user communications terminal 10 or alternatively in a dedicated computing device included in the cooking appliance 20 as taught in EP 2805653 patent application of the same inventors of present patent application.
According to the proposed invention, the measuring devices 40 may comprise: a fitness sensor wearable device, a weighting device, a glucose sensor, a pressure sensor, a thermometer, among other devices capable of measuring a physiological parameter of a user. According to the particular embodiment illustrated in
A measuring device 40 can forward the acquired parameter(s) directly to the cloud computer server 30, for example via WiFi or 2G/3G/4G technology, or via a user communications terminal 10. In this latter case, preferably, the connection between the measuring device 40 with the user communications terminal 10 is performed via Bluetooth or infrared technology whereas the connection of the user communications terminal 10 with the cloud computer server 30 is performed, preferably, via a WiFi or 2G/3G/4G technology.
Each cooking appliance 20 comprises a communication unit configured to provide interconnection with the cloud computer server 30. Said communication unit may also be configured to provide interconnection with its associated user communications terminal 10. Alternatively, each cooking appliance 20 may comprise two independent communication units to independently provide the interconnection to the cloud computer server 30 and to its associated user communications terminal 10.
In addition, the cooking appliances 20 preferably also comprise a base structure 48 on which a support for holding a container 2 containing foods to be processed is assembled, a driving unit to operate a stirring device or a cutting device contained inside said container 2, a heating unit to heat the container 2 and a control device for controlling said driving and heating units. The control device and the communication unit(s) are operatively connected in order the control device control the driving and heating units based on control instructions received from the cloud computer server 30.
The cooking appliances 20 preferably also include a display unit 11, not limitative as in alternatives embodiments, not illustrated, the cooking appliance 20 can be devoid of a display unit as taught in EP 2805654 patent application of the same inventors of present patent application.
With reference to
According to another embodiment of the proposed method, the cloud computer server 30 also compares the parameter(s) it has received with a given threshold. For instance, if the parameter received is the blood pressure the cloud computer server 30 compares it with a normal resting blood pressure threshold, which for an adult is approximately 120 mmHg systolic, and 80 mmHg diastolic, abbreviated “120/80 mmHg”. Another example could be the burnt calories. If the parameter received is the burnt calories of a user(s) the cloud computer server 30 compares it with daily calorie requirement of the user(s), which generally is about 1200 calories per day for women and 1800 calories per day for men. Consequently, the cloud computer server 30 can adapt the customized diet plan depending on the result of said comparison. Moreover, in case the value of the received parameter(s) is above the threshold, the cloud computer server 30 may also provide a warning for the user to indicate a non-healthy state of the latter as part of the transmission of the control instructions.
The proposed invention may be implemented in hardware, software, firmware, or any combination thereof. If implemented in software, the functions may be stored on or encoded as one or more instructions or code on a computer-readable medium.
As used herein, computer program products comprising computer-readable media including all forms of computer-readable medium except, to the extent that such media is deemed to be non-statutory, transitory propagating signals.
The scope of the present invention is defined in the following attached claims.
| Number | Date | Country | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17157385.0 | Feb 2017 | EP | regional |
