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US 5845263
Interactive visual ordering system
Current assignee: High Technology Solutions Inc
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Title, assignee, inventors, filing/issue dates, abstract, and a plain-language overview of the claims.
Patent Overview — US5845263A
Title: Interactive visual ordering system
Patent number: US5845263A
Application number: US08/491,582
Inventors: Allan J. Camaisa, E. Tracy Wadkins, Karen M. Gayda
Original assignee / current assignee (per listing): High Technology Solutions, Inc.
Priority and filing date: 1995-06-16
Publication (grant) date: 1998-12-01
Anticipated expiration: 2015-06-16
Legal status listed: Expired – Fee Related
Classifications include: G06Q30/04; G06Q30/06; G06Q30/0641; G06Q30/0643; G06Q50/12; G07F7/00; G07G1/00
Purpose. The patent addresses restaurant ordering and delivery. The text states that an easier, faster way to order from take-out or delivery service "needs to be established," that customers benefit from seeing a realistic image of an item plus ingredients, preparation method, and nutritional content, and that restaurants manually gather data on where people live and what menu items are in demand, with perishable food ordering based on the latest prior-day or prior-week information. The stated goal is a system that "enhances the efficiency and profitability of the restaurant industry," helps customers overcome fear of ordering new or ethnic foods, reduces waiting/idle time, and is tailorable to each restaurant's requirements.
Plain-language scope (from the supplied text). A computer program product for a computer system with a video monitor, a central processing unit, and storage for a database containing restaurant menu item characteristics and digitized photo-realistic images associated with those characteristics. Characteristics are rendered in alpha-numeric form. Computer readable code displays images and associated characteristics in response to user input and generates a menu item order signal; the computer system may include a transmitter and a network of computers. The order signal may be a payment signal representative of the customer's credit card. A visual display screen may sit at each table. The system may be tailored via a custom scripting language and scripting compiler, with scripts accessing text, pictures, video, and sound in a central custom database structure. Portable, interactive restaurant visual ordering configurations using photo-realistic images are also described, along with a two-subsystem arrangement.
Source: https://patents.google.com/patent/[US5845263](/patent/US5845263)/en
What the excerpt does not establish. Because the supplied text is partial, it does not establish the full contents of the claims, the complete written description, the full list of cited prior-art references, the contents of the microfiche source-code appendix, the outcome or subject matter of any proceedings, the accuracy of the assignee/status listings, or the omitted portions of the description.
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