Method for providing an intuitive and instant experience for varied and balanced home cooking.

Abstract

The present patent application relates to a method invention that comprises programs stored on computer storage media for providing an intuitive and instant experience to provide households with support and assist them in having a balanced daily home cooking routine. It allows them to be personally inspired about what they can cook and allows for instant nutritional tracking for each family member. The platform connects the personal data of each family member to a database related to their personalised nutritional needs. It provides instant, personalised support to help each person maintain a healthy, balanced diet, while offering daily inspiration according to their preferences. The recipes provided to users have been developed specifically for the application by chefs and nutrition experts. The platform is based on unique algorithms that gather personalised data such as nutritional needs, search history, preferences, and types of diet for each member of the household to suggest the appropriate recipe capsules created by chefs and experts.

Description

[0001] Description

[0002] Title of the invention: Method for providing an intuitive and instant experience for varied and balanced cooking at home

[0003] This patent application relates to a process invention that includes programs encoded on computer storage media, intended to provide an intuitive and instant experience to support households and assist them in their daily routine of balanced cooking at home.

[0004] It allows for both personalized inspiration on what to cook and instant nutritional tracking for each family member. The platform connects each family member's personal data to a database related to their personalized nutritional needs. It provides instant and personalized support for each person to achieve a healthy and balanced diet while inspiring them every day with their preferences. The recipes made available to users were developed specifically for the application by chefs and nutrition experts.

[0005] The platform is based on unique algorithms that draw on personalized data such as nutritional needs, search history, preferences and diet types of each member of the household to offer the appropriate recipe capsules made by chefs and experts.

[0006] The user will be able to enter their medical data, specify if they have health problems such as diabetes or other and will be automatically redirected to a personalized space offering recipes specific to their diet.

[0007] Depending on their preferences, eating habits and sporting activity, they will benefit every day from a recipe suggestion adapted to their nutritional needs.

[0008] Below you will find the specifics and new features of this tool, functionalities which according to our research do not exist today:

[0009] 1. A dedicated expert: this is an algorithm that links the recipes available on the tool with the user's profile, their preferences for culinary specialties by country, their consumption habits, the ingredients of each recipe as well as the search history. By linking the aforementioned data, the tool will come to propose the recipes or menu of the day, the week, the month to the user that best suits their profile.

[0010] 2. Personalized support: Based on the user's previous choices and their current desires, the tool will offer support for the chosen recipe as well as the best recipe suggestions to consume subsequently. This proposal will be made based on the user's needs, their search and consumption history as well as the scientific data collected allowing for dietary rebalancing in macro and micronutrients. For example, if the user chooses a recipe for lunch, it will suggest the most suitable recipes to accompany lunch and dinner to have a balanced day in terms of meals.

[0011] The same algorithm, taking into account additional elements such as the number of proteins and dairy products consumed, will come to propose an adequate plan over a longer period. 3. An intelligent algorithm: this is an algorithm based on the consumption of recipes and foods presented in the platform, this algorithm will allow them to instantly monitor their nutritional status at any time. For example, based on the calories consumed during a day and the percentage of the most important vitamins and minerals, calculated according to their needs; the person will have access to personalized food and recipe suggestions necessary to complete their daily intake.The data of each recipe consumed is stored in our database, the algorithm will transform the ingredients consumed into nutrients and will compare them to the daily needs of each member according to their profile to allow them this personalized monitoring.

[0012] We carried out research on existing nutritional support and recipe suggestions.

[0013] Today, there are several applications and sites that offer cooking recipes, such as Marmiton, Cuisine Az, or 750g. These are platforms that present only through text or videos, or both. These platforms do not analyze user preferences, do not propose recipes based on search history, and do not provide personalized, instant, and automatic nutritional monitoring.

[0014] Alongside cooking recipes apps and websites, there are calorie-counting apps that offer nutritional tracking, such as Fitatu. These apps are calorie counters only, sometimes with diet suggestions. These apps don't have an algorithm that links recipes available on the site to their instant nutritional tracking, or even suggest a specific diet based on the user's needs, linked to recipes available on the platform, also combining specialty or dish preferences, or the search and consumption history of each profile or household member.

[0015] There are also applications that will offer automatic or personalized meal plans, but this will not complement the recipes already chosen by the user or even suggest in an intelligent and instant way what is the best alternative recipe to accompany the selected meal or the following meal to offer a variety and complementarity of macro and micro nutrients based on the recipes already chosen by the user.

[0016] To summarize:

[0017] The goal of this tool is to provide comprehensive support to households and accompany them in their routine, in an intuitive and instant way, and to link the pleasure of inspiring recipes, made by cooking experts through easy 100% video capsules. The tool allows personalized and instant monitoring of their nutrition indicators but also their preferences, search history and favorite specialties. This tool contains different algorithms that will link several data criteria to propose the best combination to the user.

[0018] Consulting a nutritionist is not accessible to everyone today. The idea is to change that. Thus, the subscription to the tool will be offered at a reasonable price, allowing everyone to have access to an expert at a lower cost. Furthermore, recipes developed by renowned chefs will now be available with a rating and a specified number of views for better user guidance. In addition, the tool will be accessible to users in French and Arabic. It will even be accessible to illiterate people because all the information and recipes will be available in audio format. This tool is innovative because it offers an instant nutritional support service, with the added inspiration of several specialties and experts to truly meet the need.

[0019] The innovation of the tool consists of linking all the functionalities existing today in separate applications, merging them through the calculations of algorithms and deploying these algorithms to come and offer a personalized and dynamic experience to the user. The novelty of the tool lies in the complementarity of meals to propose a dietary rebalancing according to a recipe already desired and chosen by the user.

[0020] Description of the tool's features

[0021] 1. It offers, through a subscription, access to on-demand recipes that allow an instant view of recipes from top chefs and culinary experts. Searches can be made according to a number of personalized criteria as well as by the chef's name. Subscribers can add these favorite recipes to their personalized list. Thanks to its algorithm, the platform also automatically suggests recipes adapted to the profile.

[0022] 2. The subscriber will have access to a large number of recipes from different chefs of different nationalities to have a richness and variety of recipes for daily inspiration. These recipes are rated on our platform and also gives the user access to the number of views to be able to guide them in their choices.

[0023] 3. The system is connected to the user's personal data to provide instant, daily, weekly and monthly tracking of the most important nutrients per household member. This tracking is also valid for each of the desired dates and per household member because the entire history is stored in a database that can be consulted at any time. This nutritional monitoring indicates the number of calories vs. the need or target need, according to the user's objective as well as the percentage of vitamins and minerals contained through what has been consumed vs. the need. The user will thus be able to properly manage their consumption of food types / recipes daily or per week or per month to have a good nutritional balance.

[0024] 4. The system also offers a personalized service for recipe complementarities, once the user chooses a recipe, the platform, through a very specific algorithm (detailed above), will suggest the most suitable recipes to accompany the chosen recipe and for the following meal, to instantly balance their daily, weekly or monthly meals. These suggestions are automatically displayed on the page with a selection from a list of suitable recipes.

[0025] 5. A search engine by user name to be able to share recipes with user friends

[0026] 6. A unit converter to facilitate measurements, not everyone has a machine to weigh the grammage, the platform offers a converter of grammage to other units like small spoon, or handful or other depending on the food to facilitate the conversion.

[0027] 7. The platform offers a specific service to plan and organize your week or month with balanced and varied recipes, the platform offers 3 planning choices: • 1 er personalized service choice, the user will be able to choose from the platform's many recipes, plan these recipes according to the filter, the search engine, the shares or the list of favorites, he chooses the recipes and the dates to create his schedule. The process is very intuitive and visually clear to allow him a better experience

[0028] • 2 èmechoice: automatic planning, the user indicates the desired date of the planning and can choose 100% automation, where our algorithms will offer him a planning suitable to his needs, he can specify a small number of criteria, such as number and type of proteins and type of meal so that the algorithms automatically offer him his planning including its specificities.

[0029] • 3 ème choice, the hybrid model, the user will choose a few recipes and our algorithms will complete the other meals appropriate to their needs, to create a balanced plan for the desired duration.

[0030] These plans are automatically and instantly accompanied by a shopping list, according to the plan as well as the nutritional indicators per household member (kcal plan vs. need and % vitamin and minerals vs. need). This process facilitates the management of the entire household experience to manage the daily routine of homemade meals, namely daily inspiration with a wide choice of recipes made by cooking and nutrition experts, an automatic and instant nutritional monitoring service, automatic and instant support to balance daily meals or over a specific period, a shopping list already made and ready, to optimize purchases according to the need and all with personalization per household member on an intuitive and practical platform.

Claims

Claims 1. Computer-implemented method for proposing recipes adapted to the user profile, characterized by the following steps: - Acquisition of data entered by the user through the platform; Calculation of the following data: calorie intake, macronutrients, micronutrients, search history, gastronomic preferences; Calculation by deeplearning algorithm which takes the aforementioned data as input parameter and which generates recipe proposals according to the mentioned data; Balance of the nutritional balance of the user profile through the recipes offered in an instant manner; Instant display of graphic charts (macronutrients, micronutrients, calories, etc.) on the platform; Creation of a personalized and adaptable shopping list taking into account the recipes offered by the platform.

2. Computer-implemented method for proposing recipes adapted according to the user profile, according to claim 1, characterized in that the data is entered by the user on a form on the platform. The acquisition is done through a server hosted on a cloud.

3. Computer-implemented method for proposing recipes adapted according to the user profile, according to the preceding claims, characterized in that the calculation by Deeplearning Algorithm is done in a non-limiting manner. It takes into account the following parameters: the user's profile as well as their search history, medical / allergen specificities, the days concerned (week vs. weekend), the balance of meals, culinary preferences and tastes, favorite cuisines, favorite chefs, nutritional intake, new trends, seasonal products.

4. Computer-implemented method for proposing recipes adapted according to the user profile, according to the preceding claims, characterized in that the deep learning algorithm makes it possible to instantly balance the nutritional balance of the user profile (balance the ratio of proteins, lipids, carbohydrates, dairy products and micronutrients (vitamins and minerals) as well as the daily caloric requirement of the subscriber concerned to make it possible to propose the following meals in the most suitable way possible).

5. Computer-implemented method for proposing recipes adapted according to the user profile, according to the preceding claims, characterized in that the algorithm calculates the user's intake of macro and micro nutrients and the calorie monitoring and displays the result in the form of graphs in order to consult the state of its consumption instantly and regulate it with the aim of having and maintaining a balanced diet.

6. Computer-implemented method for proposing recipes adapted according to the user profile, according to the preceding claims, characterized by the establishment of a personalized and adapted shopping list which will be proposed according to the schedule, favorite recipes or foods selected by the subscriber to facilitate organization and for optimization of the budget in the form of ingredients by product category or by recipe.