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US4547851:
Integrated interactive restaurant communication method for food and entertainment processing
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| Country: |
US United States of America
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| Inventor: |
Kurland, Lawrence G.; Melville, NY 11747
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| Assignee: |
None
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| Published / Filed: |
1985-10-15
/ 1983-03-14
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| Application Number: |
US1983000474983
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| IPC Code: |
Advanced:
G06Q 10/00;
IPC-7:
G06F 3/04;
G06F 15/24;
G06F 15/44;
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| ECLA Code: |
G06Q50/12; G06Q10/087; G06Q30/0601;
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| U.S. Class: |
Current:
705/015;
186/038;
Original:
364/401;
364/410;
364/900;
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| Field of Search: |
364/400-401,404-405,410-412,200 MS File,900 MS File
235/7 R,383
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| Abstract: |
An interactive restaurant communication system (10) provides integrated food and entertainment processing which enables restaurant patrons to accomplish both food selection and select and receive entertainment on a common video monitor (56) at their table. The patrons can obtain menus for individual food selection on the video monitor (56) at their tables and individually enter their orders into a table station "intelligent" terminal (12, 14, 16, 18, 20) at their tables. In addition they can select from and interactively play a variety of remotely retrievable interactive entertainment activities using the video monitor (56) while waiting for the food to arrive, and if desired, where applicable, have the food and entertainment charges automatically added to a composite bill which may be printed at the table station terminal (12, 14, 16, 18, 20) or at a remote central location. The food and entertainment functions of the terminal (12, 14, 16, 18, 20) are down-line loaded from a central data base (22, 32) in response to terminal requests therefor.
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| Attorney, Agent or Firm: |
Stiefel, Gross, Kurland & Pavane ;
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| Primary / Asst. Examiners: |
Smith, Jerry; Harkcom, Gary V.
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First Claim:
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What is claimed is:
1. A method of interactively integrating food and entertainment patron selection and interaction for a plurality of table stations in a restaurant communication system comprising the steps of remotely retrievably storing and processing information comprising a plurality of displayable food menu modules and entertainment modules at a central data base, providing a plurality of down-line loadable multipurpose table station terminals at a plurality of said table stations, each of said table station terminals comprising microprocessor means, local storage means, selection and control means and local common video type display means capable of providing a video display of patron selected food menu and entertainment modules, each of said retrievably stored food and entertainment modules comprising a different set of control instructions corresponding to a different patron selectable food menu or entertainment function, said microprocessor means being operable in accordance with a locally stored one of said selected sets of control instructions;
- individually patron selecting a displayable remotely stored food menu module via said table station terminal selection means;
- down-line loading said patron selected corresponding set of control instructions to the selecting table station terminal for local storage thereof;
- locally displaying food menu selection data corresponding to said patron selected food menu module on said common video type display means in response to said down-line loaded patron selected set of control instructions, said video displayable food menu module data comprising menu selection data corresponding to a choice of food items to be ordered; individually patron selecting at least one of said video displayed food items for remotely patron ordering said selected food items; transmitting said at least one patron ordered food selection back to said central data base for central processing of said order; individually patron selecting a displayable remotely stored entertainment module via said food ordering table station terminal for video display on said common video type display means at said food ordering table station terminal; down-line loading said patron selected corresponding set of control instructions to said food ordering table station terminal for local storage thereof; locally video displaying entertainment data corresponding to said patron selected entertainment module on said food ordering table station terminal common video type display means in response to said down-line loaded selected set of control instructions to said food ordering table station terminal for enabling interaction with said video displayed entertainment data while said food order is being processed; whereby each table station terminal may independently provide both interactive entertainment and food selection on a common video type display terminal in cooperation with a central data base.
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