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Communication of digital information presented on an appliance display

  • US 9,128,931 B2
  • Filed: 12/17/2012
  • Issued: 09/08/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/17/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method of communicating information associated with a refrigerator, comprising:

  • capturing, at a computing device, information indicative of an optical machine-readable representation of information, the optical machine-readable representation presented on a digital display of a refrigerator, the optical machine-readable representation comprising a matrix barcode generated responsive to a detection of an event occurrence associated with the refrigerator, wherein the event occurrence is associated with a need to replace a water filter associated with the refrigerator; and

    accessing, with the computing device, data associated with the refrigerator responsive to the optical machine-readable representation, the data indicative of commercial information associated with purchasing a replacement water filter.

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