CONSUMABLE HOLDER WITH ROUTABLE DATA PACKET FOR AN APPLIANCE

• US 20090040066A1
• Filed: 10/23/2008
• Published: 02/12/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/09/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
• Original Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
• Inventors: EBROM, MATTHEW P., MCCOY, RICHARD A., GLOTZBACH, MARK E., PIRES, ANDRE O.
• Application Number:
  US12/256,530
• Publication Number:
  US 20090040066A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/825.220
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/54 Interprogram communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/282 based on user interaction within the home receiver circuitry for displaying additional information being controlled by a remote control apparatus H04N21/42204
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2012/285 Generic home appliances, e.g. refrigerators
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/26 Special purpose or proprietary protocols or architectures network applications for proprietary or special purpose networking environments H04L67/12
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 6/688 for thawing
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 40/00 Technologies aiming at improving the efficiency of home appliances, e.g. induction cooking or efficient technologies for refrigerators, freezers or dish washers

Abstract

An appliance configured to perform an operation cycle to effect a physical operation on an article, the appliance includes at least one component configured to effect the physical operation, and a cycle engine on the component. The cycle engine can access a structure for the operation cycle to enable the component to perform the physical operation.

Claims

1. A consumable holder for use in an appliance configured to perform an operation cycle related to a consumable, the consumable holder having a data packet with routing information wherein the data packet can be routed to a receiver.

2. The consumable holder of claim 1 wherein the consumable holder comprises a sensor and the data packet is acquired from the sensor.

3. The consumable holder of claim 2 wherein the data packet is acquired from a distinct source of information about one of the consumable and the consumable holder.

4. The consumable holder of any of claim 1 wherein data packet includes data about at least one attribute of the consumable that would enable the appliance to ascertain the utility of the consumable.

5. A consumable information holder for use by an appliance configured to perform an operation cycle related to a consumable, the consumable information holder comprising a data packet with routing information wherein the data packet can be routed to a receiver.

6. The consumable information holder of claim 5 wherein the data packet also comprises information associated with a consumable.

7. The consumable information holder of claim 5 wherein the consumable information holder is one of a consumable holder, a performance tag, a consumable, and a data pod.

8. The consumable information holder of claim 6 wherein the information associated with a consumable includes data about at least one attribute of the consumable that would enable the appliance to ascertain the utility of the consumable.

9. The consumable information holder of claim 6 wherein the information associated with a consumable includes any one of a sound, a graphic, a ring tone, licensable information, advertising information, usage instructions, purchasing and replenishment information, and ingredient information relating to the consumable.

10. The consumable information holder of claim 6 wherein the information associated with a consumable comprises two of first and second cycle structures and first and second user interface data sets.

11. The consumable information holder of claim 10 wherein the first and second cycle structures and first and second user interface data sets are associated, respectively, with first and second appliances or appliance types.

12. The consumable information holder of claim 5 wherein the consumable information holder is configured to receive and store information associated with the consumable.

13. A data packet for direct use in a network message wherein the network message is directly useable by an appliance configured to perform an operation cycle related to a consumable, the data packet comprising information associated with a consumable and routing information wherein the data packet can be routed over a network.

14. The data packet of claim 13 wherein the routing information comprises one of network node id, a network id, and identifiers that provide routing from the sending node to the receiving software module or object within the receiving node