Item management system for connected appliances

    公开(公告)号:US11949535B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-04-02

    申请号:US17703132

    申请日:2022-03-24

    IPC分类号: H04L12/28 G06V10/94

    摘要: An item-management system is provided having a household appliance, a camera assembly, and a controller. The household appliance may include a cabinet. The camera assembly may be directed at the cabinet to capture an image of the cabinet. The controller may be in operative communication with the camera assembly. The controller may have access to an item list of one or more stored items. The controller may be configured to direct an item-management operation. The item-management operation may include receiving the image from the camera assembly, identifying, automatically, based on the received image, a stored item from the item list, determining, based on identifying the stored item, an unsuitable status of the identified stored item to indicate the identified stored item is inappropriate for the household appliance, and directing, based on determining the unsuitable status, a responsive action at the household appliance.

    Refrigerator appliance with smart door alarm

    公开(公告)号:US11940211B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-03-26

    申请号:US17670803

    申请日:2022-02-14

    发明人: Haitian Hu Hairong Li

    IPC分类号: F25D29/00

    CPC分类号: F25D29/008 F25D2700/02

    摘要: A refrigerator appliance includes a cabinet defining a food storage chamber with a door movably coupled to the cabinet whereby the door is movable between a closed position and an open position. A method of operating the refrigerator appliance may include, or the refrigerator appliance may be operable for, receiving an intentional door open input and disabling a door alarm of the refrigerator appliance in response to the intentional door open input. Such methods or operations may further include automatically re-enabling the door alarm after disabling the door alarm.

    SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING APPLIANCE PERFORMANCE REPORTS

    公开(公告)号:US20230401542A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-12-14

    申请号:US17838705

    申请日:2022-06-13

    IPC分类号: G06Q10/00 G06Q30/06 G06Q10/06

    摘要: An appliance performance report method for determining and communicating conditions of appliances. The method includes receiving appliance performance test parameters from a supervisory user of an appliance. The appliance performance test parameters include a test time frame for performing a self-diagnostic test. The method further includes directing the appliance to perform the self-diagnostic test during the test time frame, receiving diagnostic test data from the appliance following performance of the self-diagnostic test, generating a performance report using the diagnostic test data received from the appliance, and communicating the performance report to the supervisory user. An appliance performance report system including a controller is also described.

    HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES COMPONENT TRACKING SYSTEMS AND METHODS

    公开(公告)号:US20230344668A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-10-26

    申请号:US17725723

    申请日:2022-04-21

    IPC分类号: H04L12/28

    CPC分类号: H04L12/2807

    摘要: A method of operating a household appliance includes installing a multi-source mechanical component in the household appliance. The method also includes storing an identity of the multi-source mechanical component in a local memory of the household appliance. The method further includes connecting the household appliance to a remote computing device. The method also includes storing the identity of the multi-source mechanical component in the remote computing device.

    NETWORK BASED APPLIANCE CONTROLLER SYSTEM AND METHOD

    公开(公告)号:US20230342120A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-10-26

    申请号:US17728228

    申请日:2022-04-25

    IPC分类号: G06F8/38

    CPC分类号: G06F8/38

    摘要: A system and method for user interface development and appliance data transmission is provided. The method includes generating, at a controller at an appliance, a core control module configured to perform operations corresponding to a first operating function at the appliance; obtaining, at a network computing device, a user input corresponding to a second operating function; building, at the network computing device, a user-specific control module comprising the second operating function; transmitting, to the controller at the appliance, the user-specific control module; and combining the user-specific control module to the core control module.