Patent ID: 11954721
Assignee: WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A food-sharing system comprising:
a computer server;
a user foodstuff database communicatively coupled with the computer server;
a user interface adapted to receive a foodstuff query input from a user, the user interface communicatively coupled with the computer server;
the computer server including a processor adapted to:
receive the foodstuff query input from the user interface, the foodstuff query input including a set of the user's available foodstuff items;
access a foodstuff database defining a set of available foodstuff items from other users;
access a recipe database including at least one recipe having a list of foodstuff ingredients needed to prepare the at least one recipe;
compare the set of the user's available foodstuff items and the set of available foodstuff items from other users with the list of foodstuff ingredients of the at least one recipe;
identify the at least one recipe based on the comparison;
identify available foodstuff items needed to prepare the identified at least one recipe; and
send instructions to display the identified at least one recipe and a location associated with the other users and the available foodstuff items needed to prepare the identified at least one recipe on the user interface;

wherein the computer server is adapted to sense, by a food container sensor, the set of the user's available foodstuff items disposed in a food container; and
wherein the computer server is further configured to store the sensed set of the user's available foodstuff items in the user foodstuff database.