System Consisting Of A Plurality Of Cooking Devices With Respective Network-Based Monitoring Devices

• US 20100205295A1
• Filed: 02/01/2010
• Published: 08/12/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 08/01/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Rational AG
• Original Assignee: Rational AG
• Inventors: Schûhler, Bemard, Govorukhin, Alexey, Dobos, Laszlo, Stolnhofer, Ingrid, Marz, Wilhelm, Pechaigner, Stefan, Schuller, Erwin, Dietmayer, Cornelia
• Application Number:
  US12/697,733
• Publication Number:
  US 20100205295A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: F24C 7/08 Arrangement or mounting of control or safety devices
• 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

Abstract

A system for synchronous monitoring of a cooking process of a plurality of cooking devices via the internal web browser of one of the cooking devices comprises a plurality of cooking devices that can be interconnected via interfaces. Each cooking device is connected to at least one internal web server that is connected to a network and that provides services for the monitoring, control or analysis of at least one of the cooking devices. At least one internal web browser is provided that is connected to the network and that can use at least the services of one of the internal web servers.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a plurality of cooking devices that are interconnected through interfaces;

each cooking device being connected to at least one internal web server that is connected to a network and that provides in the network services for the monitoring and control of at least one of the plurality of cooking devices; and

at least one internal web browser that is connected to the network and that can use at least the services of one of the internal web servers so that a cooking process of the plurality of cooking devices is monitored synchronously via the internal web browser of one of the cooking devices.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein

each internal web server is a server of the services of which are callable via an HTTP.

3. The system according to claim 1, wherein

each internal web browser is a client that accesses the network via HTTP with the services being web services.

4. The system according to claim 1, wherein

the services of each internal web server are callable from at least one remote web browser that is connected to the network.

5. The system according to claim 1, wherein,

each internal web browser uses the services of at least one remote web server that is connected to the network.

6. The system according to claim 1, wherein,

the services of an internal web server comprise:

a control of at least one cooking device,

a readout, a writing or a modification of settings and of cooking device configurations,

a readout or a modification of running times and running cycles of cooking processes,

a readout of service, diagnosis and statistics data, and

a creation, a management, an uploading or a downloading of cooking programs.

7. The system according to claim 6, wherein,

each internal web browser is an active component of the operation of at least one cooking device through the use of the services of each internal web server.

8. The system according to claim 1, wherein,

each internal web server is bi-directionally connected via a data line with an electronic control device of a cooking device.

9. The system according to claim 1, wherein,

the network comprises:

a local network of a cooking device with the local networks being inter-connectable via a respective interface or being connectable with another cooking device.

10. The system according to claim 1, wherein,

the network comprises:

the internet with each local network being connectable via an interface with the internet.

11. The system according to claim 9, wherein

the interface is a web interface.

12. The system according to claim 1, wherein,

services for a cooking device from a central web server or from an internal web server of another cooking device are used from the internal web browser of at least one cooking device.