Digital Menu Authorization Control via Food Product Association

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Solution Overview

Problem

There is a lack of effective authorization management for digital menus and convenient food products, as existing solutions fail to manage usage authorizations and legitimacy of digital menu instantiations, leading to difficulties in tracking and supervising the use of these products.

Innovation Solution

An authorization control method and system that associates convenient food product information with digital menu instantiation information, using a database to process and validate information, granting usage authorizations, and employing a smart apparatus for supervision and management, ensuring legitimate use and tracking of digital menu instantiations.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If digital menu is made easily reproducible and movable, then convenience of use is improved, but authorization management becomes difficult

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveconvenience of digital menu useVSAvoidauthorization management complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies copying by creating digital menu instantiations that can be easily reproduced and distributed. Each instantiation is a copy of the master digital menu, allowing convenient movement and reproduction while maintaining authorization control through the association with convenient food products.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces an intermediary authorization management system that mediates between the digital menu copies and users. This system associates digital menu instantiations with convenient food products, enabling automatic authorization verification without increasing user操作 complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Reliability

If authorization management is implemented for each digital menu copy, then producer rights protection is improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveproducer rights protectionVSAvoidauthorization management system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements self-service authorization management where the system automatically verifies and manages authorizations without manual intervention. When a user purchases convenient food, the system automatically associates the corresponding digital menu instantiation and grants usage rights, eliminating the need for complex manual authorization processes.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The patent applies preliminary action by pre-establishing the association between convenient food products and digital menu instantiations before distribution. This allows authorization to be automatically granted when the food product is purchased, rather than requiring complex post-purchase authorization management.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Ease of manufacture

If digital menu and convenient food are separately managed, then production flexibility is maintained, but usage convenience decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveproduction flexibilityVSAvoidusage convenience
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges the management of digital menu instantiations with convenient food products by associating them through a unified authorization system. This combination maintains production flexibility as they can still be manufactured separately, while improving usage convenience as they are automatically linked when the food product is purchased.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS10430601B2Authorization control device, system and smart apparatus for convenient food and digital menu
Publication Date: 2019.10.01 ZHUHAI UNICOOK TECHNOLOGY CO LTD
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AI summary

Disclosed is an authorization control method of convenient food and a digital menu. A database stores digital menu information, convenient food specification information, digital menu instantiation information and convenient food product information. The convenient food product information and digital menu instantiation information in the database are processed so as to generate convenient food product information unit and digital menu instantiation information unit. By creating the convenient food product information and the digital menu instantiation information, the invention can manage the usage authorization of the convenient food specification information and the digital menu information, while simultaneously associating the convenient food product information and the digital menu instantiation information, thus increasing the convenience in using convenient food.