Patent ID: 7751983

Claim:
An electronic method implemented over an electronic medium for providing blending combinations of botanical ingredients to produce a desired effect, the method comprising: receiving characteristics of desired organoleptic effects; receiving organoleptic information about a plurality of botanical ingredients; accessing a data structure containing information reflecting relationships between categories of organoleptic effects and blending combinations, wherein the data structure includes information characterizing the plurality of botanical ingredients and information about suitability of combining at least some of the plurality of botanical ingredients with other of the plurality of botanical ingredients, wherein the data structure is provided in an electronic table of botanical ingredients for blending combinations that produce a pleasing, desired organoleptic effect, comprising different groups of cells of the table, each group comprising ingredients that possess varying degrees of similarity in one or more characteristics, and each cell corresponding to a single ingredient, wherein the groups are arranged in the table such that adjacent cells in the same or different groups correspond to ingredients that possess the closest similarities in one or more characteristics; storing an electronically-implemented classification system of the organoleptic information; identifying, using the electronically-implemented classification system, blending combinations; and providing the blending information to a user.