Appeal No. 96-3157 Page 16
Application 08/088,136
resides, and the applicability of each item for a particular
meal. The
daily menus are created from the items in the list in a manner
such that each meal in each menu only includes items which are
applicable to that meal, each meal has items from each of a
preselected number of food groups, and each meal has a
predetermined caloric content. After the menus are formed,
selected items in the menus can be replaced, with each
replacement item being applicable for the particular meal,
being in the same food group, and having the same caloric
content as the item that is replaced. The apparatus is an
electronic digital computer which is programmed to
automatically generate the menus for a particular gender and
desired weight loss of the user, and then provide replacement
items for particular items in the menu which satisfy the
foregoing characteristics at the request of the user.
The examiner determined (answer, p. 11) that
it would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in
the art at the time of the invention to modify Madsen et
al's method by inquiring the customer and selecting
certain desired recipes not containing the avoided
ingredients instead of selecting certain desired food
items as in Madsen et al since selecting certain desired
food items the user is avoiding certain undesired or
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