Beverage Maker Recipe Suggestion Using Time-Stamped User Profile Data

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing beverage making devices lack the ability to provide personalized and customizable recipe suggestions based on user preferences and time-specific habits, leading to inefficient operation and user annoyance.

Innovation Solution

A beverage making device equipped with a controller arrangement, user interface, and memory that records user profiles and beverage making data, including time data, to generate recipe suggestions tailored to the user's habits and time slots, using algorithms to analyze and communicate personalized suggestions.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If the device provides recipe suggestions based on user profiles and recorded data, then the level of customization and user experience is improved, but the device complexity increases due to additional algorithms and data processing requirements

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecustomization levelVSAvoidalgorithm complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The device automatically generates recipe suggestions by analyzing recorded beverage making data and user profiles without requiring manual user configuration. The system serves itself by autonomously processing data, identifying patterns in user preferences, and presenting personalized recommendations, thereby improving customization while managing complexity through automation.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The device performs preliminary data recording and analysis by continuously storing beverage making parameters and user interactions in memory. This pre-processing of data enables the suggestion generation algorithm to quickly retrieve and analyze relevant information when needed, reducing real-time computational complexity while maintaining high customization capability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Adaptability or versatility

If the device records and analyzes beverage making data to generate personalized suggestions, then the user experience is enhanced, but the loss of time for data processing and analysis increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvepersonalization capabilityVSAvoiddata processing time

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system continuously records beverage making data and user profiles in memory during normal operation, performing preliminary data organization and storage. This ensures that when recipe suggestions are needed, the algorithm can quickly retrieve pre-organized data without extensive real-time processing, thus enhancing personalization while minimizing time loss.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces complex real-time analytical processing with a more efficient data retrieval and pattern matching approach. By substituting heavy computational analysis with streamlined algorithms that leverage pre-recorded data structures, the system achieves high personalization capability while reducing the time required for suggestion generation.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

3Ease of operation

If the device provides frequent recipe suggestions to users, then user engagement is improved, but user annoyance increases due to excessive interruptions

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveuser engagementVSAvoiduser annoyance

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The device applies a balanced approach by providing recipe suggestions selectively rather than continuously. The suggestion generation algorithm analyzes recorded data and user profiles to determine when suggestions are most valuable, presenting them at appropriate moments based on user behavior patterns. This partial action approach maintains high user engagement while avoiding excessive interruptions that would cause annoyance.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Data Source

PatentEP4643724A1Generating a recipe suggestion representative of a setting of at least one parameter of a beverage making process

Publication Date: 2025.11.05 VERSUNI HLDG BV

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AI summary

In the context of beverage making, a beverage making device (100) is provided, comprising a controller arrangement (10) and a user interface (20). During operation of the beverage making device (100), an algorithm for selecting a user profile associated with the user of the beverage making device (100) is realized. Further, a set of beverage making data is recorded with the selected user profile, which beverage making data does not only include parameter settings of the beverage making process that are representative of the chosen recipe, but also time data representative of a time at which the beverage making process is performed. The recordal of the time data enables providing the user with a recipe suggestion which is chosen in relation to the time at which the recipe suggestion is generated.