Patent Document ID: 9805021
Application ID: 14805778

Base Claim:
1. A method comprising: at a server device that hosts a fitness management application, receiving text information that describes a food recipe; at the server, parsing the text information to identify a first text portion that corresponds to one or more food ingredients and a second text portion that corresponds to a quantity corresponding to each of the one or more food ingredients; at the server, matching the one or more food ingredients in the first text portion with respective ones of known food ingredients in a database of known food ingredients; at the server, converting the quantity corresponding to each of the one or more food ingredients in the second text portion from a first quantity unit to a second quantity unit, the second quantity unit being selected based at least in part on a unit associated to nutrition information for the one or more food ingredients; at the server, calculating one or more nutrient content values of the food recipe using the nutritional information for the one or more food ingredients and the second quantity unit; and entering at least a portion of the calculated one or more nutrient content values into a nutrition log upon user selection thereof.

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Claim 2:
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the act of matching comprises matching the one or more food ingredients with the respective ones of the known food ingredients by performing a cascading series of searches in the database of known food ingredients, wherein the cascading series includes levels of comparisons of the one or more food ingredients with selected possibilities of matches in the database of known food ingredients.