Patent ID: 9558515
Date: 2017-01-31
CPC Classifications: G06Q,G16H

Claim:
1. At a computer system, a method for recommending a food item to a registered customer comprising a group of one or more members, the method comprising: accessing an indication of two or more food items in a shopping cart for the registered customer; accessing a customer nutritional profile for the registered customer, the customer nutritional profile derived from characteristics associated with the registered customer, the characteristics comprising: calculating a cumulative nutritional content of the two or more food items from item nutritional profiles for each of the two or more food items; comparing the customer nutritional profile to the cumulative nutritional content to determine that purchase of the two or more food items fails to satisfy at least one nutritional requirement of the registered customer; identifying an additional food item that satisfies the at least one nutritional requirement based at least in part on the customer nutritional profile and a nutritional content of the additional food item; and recommending the additional food item to the registered customer for purchase in addition to the purchase of the two or more food items.