OPERATING AN APPLIANCE BASED ON COOKING INSTRUCTIONS EMBEDDED IN AN RFID PRODUCT TAG
First Claim
1. A computer program product including computer usable program code embodied on a computer usable medium for operating a cooking appliance, the computer program product comprising:
- computer usable program code for using an RFID antennae of a cooking appliance to read a plurality of cooking instruction sets from a single RFID tag associated with a food product that is positioned to be cooked by the cooking appliance;
computer usable program code for selecting one of the plurality of cooking instruction sets that the cooking appliance is capable of performing; and
computer usable program code for cooking the food product by controlling the cooking appliance according to the selected cooking instruction set.
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Abstract
Method and computer program product for using an RFID antenna of a cooking appliance to read a plurality of cooking instruction sets from a single RFID tag associated with a food product that is positioned to be cooked by the cooking appliance. The cooking appliance selects one of the plurality of cooking instruction sets that the cooking appliance is capable of performing. Furthermore, the cooking appliance may then automatically cook the food product by controlling the cooking appliance according to the selected cooking instruction set. The selection of a cooking instruction set may consider the temperature of the food product or a determination whether the food product is frozen. Alternatively, cooking appliance settings may be interpolated between two cooking instruction sets or calculated on the basis of physical property information about the food product.
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23 Claims
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1. A computer program product including computer usable program code embodied on a computer usable medium for operating a cooking appliance, the computer program product comprising:
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computer usable program code for using an RFID antennae of a cooking appliance to read a plurality of cooking instruction sets from a single RFID tag associated with a food product that is positioned to be cooked by the cooking appliance; computer usable program code for selecting one of the plurality of cooking instruction sets that the cooking appliance is capable of performing; and computer usable program code for cooking the food product by controlling the cooking appliance according to the selected cooking instruction set. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A method comprising:
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using an RFID antennae of a cooking appliance to read a plurality of cooking instruction sets from an RFID tag associated with a food product that is positioned to be cooked by the cooking appliance; automatically selecting one of the plurality of cooking instruction sets that the cooking appliance is capable of performing; and cooking the food product by controlling the cooking appliance according to the selected cooking instruction set. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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