Modifying existing recipes to incorporate additional or replace existing ingredients

US9870550B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Donna K. Byron · Petersham, US
• Carmine M. DiMascio · Dedham, US
• Florian Pinel · New York, US
• Timothy P. Winkler · Meriden, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 12, 2015
• Grant date: Jan 16, 2018
• Expiry date: Mar 16, 2036

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/087
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Mechanisms are provided for implementing a recipe modification system. The recipe modification system receives a request to modify an existing recipe from a requestor. The request identifies the existing recipe and an ingredient to be added to the existing recipe. The recipe modification system identifies a cluster of recipe elements associated with the ingredient to be added to the existing recipe and selects a representative member recipe element of the cluster. The recipe modification system modifies the existing recipe based on the selected representative member recipe element and generates a natural language text for the modified recipe based on the existing recipe and the selected representative member recipe element. The recipe modification system outputs the natural language text for the modified recipe to the requestor.