Patent ID: 8442674

Claim:
A method comprising: under control of a container-less custom beverage vending system having a program stored in memory and executable by one or more processors: receiving an identification of a user; requesting attributes of the user; receiving the attributes of the user; and displaying a personalized beverage menu on a user interface based on the received attributes, wherein the displayed personalized beverage menu enables a user to create and name a customized beverage recipe; wherein after confirming a final composition of the customized beverage recipe, the display presents a user with an option to share their custom beverage with specific other users whom they have designated; wherein the beverage names and/or recipes are shared with other users through a database which stores the name and/or recipe and is only accessible to the designated other users; wherein the container-less custom beverage vending system enables users to select shared custom beverages to be vended by the system by accessing the stored names and/or recipes in the database and displaying the shared custom beverage on the personalized beverage menu so that the user may select the name of a shared custom beverage submitted by another user, and likewise another user may select on their own personalized beverage menu a shared custom beverage submitted by the user.