Intelligent microwave oven appliance
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1. A microwave oven apparatus, comprising:
- a housing;
a microwave generator disposed in association with the housing;
a code input device;
a controller that stores a plurality of recipe programs upon receipt of the plurality of programs at the network interface and operates the microwave generator in accordance with a recipe program selected from the plurality of recipe programs in view of a code input by the code input device; and
a network interface that request a recipe program from an operably connected, but external device and receives the requested recipe program.
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Abstract
The invention may be broadly conceptualized as an approach in which a microwave oven (120) receives a plurality of program recipes from a network that are executed by scanning with a scanner (1326) a symbol and associating the scanned symbol with one of the plurality of program recipes while keeping a real-time clock (1308) synchronized and correctly set by receiving period time synchronization messages.
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13 Claims
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1. A microwave oven apparatus, comprising:
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a housing;
a microwave generator disposed in association with the housing;
a code input device;
a controller that stores a plurality of recipe programs upon receipt of the plurality of programs at the network interface and operates the microwave generator in accordance with a recipe program selected from the plurality of recipe programs in view of a code input by the code input device; and
a network interface that request a recipe program from an operably connected, but external device and receives the requested recipe program. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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5. A method, comprising:
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receiving in a microwave oven a plurality of recipe programs at a network interface from an operably connected, but external device; and
storing the plurality of recipe programs in a memory by a controller that are each selectable with a digital signal from a code input device; and
configuring the microwave oven in response to the digital signal being associated with one recipe program in the plurality of recipe programs. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 12, 13)
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8. A apparatus, comprising:
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means for receiving in a microwave oven a plurality of recipe programs at a network interface from an operably connected, but external device; and
means for storing the plurality of recipe programs in a memory by a controller that are each selectable with a digital signal from a code input device; and
means for configuring the microwave oven in response to the digital signal being associated with one recipe program in the plurality of recipe programs. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10)
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11. A machine-readable signal-bearing medium containing instructions that cause a system to perform a method for operating a microwave oven, the method comprising:
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receiving in a microwave oven a plurality of recipe programs at a network interface from an operably connected, but external device; and
storing the plurality of recipe programs in a memory by a controller that are each selectable with a digital signal from a code input device; and
configuring the microwave oven in response to the digital signal being associated with one recipe program in the plurality of recipe programs.
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