Customized food selection, ordering and distribution system and method

US8249946B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• General Mills, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Barrie R. Froseth · Plymouth, US
• Raymond Bowers · Plymouth, US
• Katy Dickson · Eden Prairie, US
• Mike Geddis · Plymouth, US
• Myer Joy · Morges, CH
• Paul Muller · Heidelberg, DE
• Kimberly Nelson · Fargo, US
• Lisa R. Schroeder · Brooklyn Park, US
• Sheri M. Schellhaass · Plymouth, US
• Jeffrey Thoresen Severts · Minneapolis, US
• Bernhard H. van Lengerich · Plymouth, US
• David Edward Williams · Bethesda, US
• Philip K. Zietlow · Wayzata, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 17, 2007
• Grant date: Aug 21, 2012
• Expiry date: Apr 27, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G16H20/60
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A system and method for selecting, ordering and distributing customized food products is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method is a computer-implemented method comprising viewing a list of additives for creating a customized food product, selecting one or more additives from the list of additives to create the customized food product, and transmitting a request to purchase the customized food product, which is then distributed to the consumer. By communicating with the manufacturer as to personal needs and desires pertaining to health, activity level, organoleptic preferences and so forth, the consumer can now develop and order a customized food product to suit his or her particular tastes, using a real-time interactive communication link.