Patent ID: 8103378

Claim:
An appliance comprising: a housing; a dispenser supported by the housing; a water supply mechanism supported by the housing and connected to the dispenser; a drink supply mechanism supported by the housing and connected to the dispenser, said drink supply mechanism configured to removably hold a plurality of drink supply containers; a user interface panel supported by the housing; and a computer supported by the housing and connected to the dispenser and the user interface panel, said computer configured to: (a) cause the user interface panel to display a plurality of different images, each image associated with a different one of a plurality of different beverages which correspond to a drink supply in at least one of the plurality of drink supply containers held by the drink supply mechanism, (b) enable the user interface panel to receive an input from a user of a selected one of said plurality of different displayed images, (c) after receiving the input from the user of the selected one of said plurality of different displayed images, cause the dispenser to dispense the beverage corresponding to the selected image, and (d) track, for each drink supply container held by the drink supply, mechanism, a volume of the drink supply dispensed by the dispenser from said drink supply container.