Network and method for casting a user interface
AssigneeWhirlpool Corporation
InventorsNathan Bilancio, Alexander Clayton, Brandon L. Satanek, Wen Shi, James O. Thompson
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Abstract
A home network can comprise at least one appliance with an appliance interactive display and at least one mobile device with a mobile interactive display. An application on the mobile device or the appliance can be configured to enable a user to create a user interface on the appliance or mobile device interactive displays. The user interface can be cast to the other of the mobile device or the appliance on which it was created and can be interacted with independent of where the user interface was created.
Claims19
A mobile device for use with a home network including at least one appliance having an appliance interactive display and an appliance communication module, the mobile device comprising:
- a mobile interactive display;
- a mobile communication module;
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- an application on the mobile device, configured to receive and display on the mobile interactive display a received user interface cast from at least one appliance and enable a user to create a user interface on the mobile interactive display, the created user interface configured to have the ability to be modified by the user and display updated information particular to certain users of the appliance interactive display, and to cast the created user interface to the appliance interactive display of the at least one appliance when the mobile communication module is in communication with the appliance communication module of the at least one appliance;
- wherein the received user interface on the appliance interactive display can be changed by a user interacting with the appliance interactive display independently of the mobile device.
A home appliance configured to perform a physical operation on an article comprising:
- an appliance interactive display;
- an appliance communication module;
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- an application on the appliance, configured to enable a user to receive a user interface on the appliance interactive display from a mobile device, the received user interface configured to have the ability to be modified by the user and display updated information particular to certain users, of the appliance interactive display, the application further configured to enable the user to receive the user interface on the appliance being cast from the mobile device when the appliance communication module is in communication with the mobile device;
- wherein the received user interface on the appliance interactive display can be changed by a user interacting with the appliance interactive display independently of the mobile device.
An appliance configured to perform a physical operation on an article, the appliance including an application installed on the appliance, the application configured to instruct the appliance to perform the physical operation, further comprising:
- a mobile device including a mobile interactive display configured to create an user interface, wherein the mobile device can communicate with the appliance to instruct the appliance to perform the physical operation;
- wherein the application is configured to enable a user to receive the user interface at an appliance interactive display on the appliance, the received user interface configured to have the ability to be modified by the user and display information particular to certain users of the appliance interactive display, and to receive the created user interface to the appliance interactive display on the appliance when the mobile device is in communication with the appliance;
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- wherein the received user interface on the appliance interactive display can be changed by the user interacting with the appliance interactive display independently of the mobile device.
A method of casting a user interface from a mobile device to an appliance, the method comprising:
- creating the user interface with an application on a mobile interactive display of the mobile device, the created user interface configured to have the ability to be modified by a user and display updated information particular to certain users;
- and
- casting the created user interface from the mobile device to the appliance;
- and
- wherein the user can change the casted user interface by interacting with an appliance interactive display on the appliance to which the created user interface is cast independently of the mobile device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.