Consumable holder with taxonomy

• US 8,395,476 B2
• Filed: 10/23/2008
• Issued: 03/12/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/09/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
• Original Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
• Inventors: Ebrom, Matthew P., McCoy, Richard A.
• Primary Examiner(s): SYED, NABIL H
• Application Number:
  US12/256,542
• Publication Number:
  US 20090045926A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,601 Days
• Field of Search: 340/1.1, 340/933, 340/3.24, 340/4.11, 340/4.3, 340/12.22, 340/12.23, 340/12.5, 706/48, 706/45, 706/9, 715/764, 715/705, 700/65, 700/17, 700/18
• US Class Current: 340/1.1
• 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

A consumable holder is provided for use with the appliance configured to perform a physical cycle of operation on an article. The consumable holder is configured to communicate with the appliance using a well formed command according to a taxonomy dataset.

Claims

1. A consumable holder for use with an appliance configured to perform a physical cycle of operation on an article, wherein the consumable holder is configured to communicate with the appliance, the consumable holder comprising:

a memory, and

a taxonomy dataset stored in the memory for enabling a programmable command generator to generate a well formed command for controlling an operation of the appliance in at least one state, the taxonomy dataset having a plurality of command components associated with at least one function of the appliance operation in the at least one state, wherein the taxonomy dataset is generated in the at least one state of the appliance, received in the memory at runtime and wherein the plurality of command components is limited to only those functions available for the appliance operation in the at least one state whereby the operation of the appliance can be controlled at runtime in the at least one state by the well formed command communicated from the consumable holder.

2. The consumable holder of claim 1 further comprising a consumable information holder having the well formed command according to the taxonomy dataset wherein the consumable information holder is enabled to communicate with one of the consumable holder and the appliance.

3. The consumable holder of claim 1 wherein the well formed command affects the cycle of operation.

4. The consumable holder of claim 1 wherein the consumable holder is configured for communication with a user interface and wherein the well formed command affects the user interface.

8. The consumable holder of claim 1 wherein the taxonomy dataset represents one of an incremental change to an appliance taxonomy capabilities dataset and new net operational capabilities of the appliance and the consumable holder.

9. The consumable holder of claim 1 in communication with the appliance and a user interface wherein the appliance has a taxonomy structure and the consumable holder has a new taxonomy structure that represents one of an incremental change to the appliance taxonomy structure and new net per state operational capabilities of the appliance and the consumable holder wherein the user interface has a new taxonomy capabilities dataset derived from the new taxonomy structure.

10. The consumable holder of claim 9 wherein changes appearing in the user interface from the new taxonomy capabilities dataset include one of new default attribute values, new cycles, new options, changes to cycles, changes to options, and selectable and non selectable valid values thereof.

5. A consumable information holder for use with an appliance configured to perform a physical cycle of operation on an article, wherein the consumable information holder is configured to communicate with the appliance, the consumable information holder comprising:

a memory, and

a taxonomy dataset stored in the memory for enabling a programmable command generator to generate a well formed command for controlling an operation of the appliance in at least one state, the taxonomy dataset having a plurality of command components associated with at least one function of the appliance operation in the at least one state, wherein the taxonomy dataset is generated in the at least one state of the appliance, received in the memory at runtime and wherein the plurality of command components is limited to only those functions available for the appliance operation in the at least one state whereby the operation of the appliance can be controlled at runtime in the at least one state by the well formed command communicated from the consumable information holder.

6. The consumable information holder of claim 5 wherein the well formed command affects the cycle of operation.

7. The consumable information holder of claim 5 wherein the consumable information holder is configured for communication with a user interface and wherein the well formed command affects the user interface.