Patents Assigned to Wine Societies, Inc.
  • Patent number: 7881960
    Abstract: A method and/or a system for value analysis and value added concoction of a beverage in a network environment of the beverage is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes acquiring a set of opinion data corresponding to a set of attributes defining a beverage through users of a network having a propensity to identify themselves with the beverage using an incentive promoting the beverage to the users. The method also includes applying an algorithm to transform the set of opinion data to factors which affect a market value of the beverage, and determining the market value of the beverage as a function of one or more of the factors. In another embodiment, a method includes generating a formula data to enable a registered user to concoct a variation of a particular type of beverage accentuating one or more intrinsic qualities of the particular type of beverage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Wine Societies, Inc.
    Inventor: Rajkumar Ramamurti