Method for cook time synchronization
AssigneeHaier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
InventorsChad Michael Helms, Todd E. Greenwood
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Abstract
A method for cook time synchronization includes synchronizing a cook time in one of a plurality of cooking appliances to a user selected remaining cook time from one of the other of the plurality of cooking appliances. The method also includes: (1) transmitting, to the one of the plurality of cooking appliances, a remaining cook time from each of the other of the plurality of cooking appliances over a network; and/or (2) requesting, at the one of the plurality of cooking appliances, the remaining cook time from each of the other of the plurality of cooking appliances over the network in response to a user input at the one of the plurality of cooking appliances.
Claims8
A method for cook time synchronization, comprising:
- in response to a user input at one of a plurality of cooking appliances, sending a cook time request with a synchronization number to each of the other of the plurality of cooking appliances over a network;
- transmitting, to the one of a plurality of cooking appliances, the remaining cook time and the synchronization number from each of the other of the plurality of cooking appliances over the network;
- presenting the remaining cook time from each of the other of the plurality of cooking appliances on a display of the one of the plurality of cooking appliances;
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- synchronizing a cook time in the one of the plurality of cooking appliances to a user selected remaining cook time from one of the other of the plurality of cooking appliances.
A method for cook time synchronization, comprising:
- requesting, at one of a plurality of cooking appliances, a remaining cook time from each of the other of the plurality of cooking appliances over a network in response to a user input at the one of the plurality of cooking appliances by sending a cook time request with a synchronization number to each of the other of the plurality of cooking appliances over the network;
- presenting the remaining cook time from each of the other of the plurality of cooking appliances on a display of the one of the plurality of cooking appliances when the remaining cook time and the synchronization number are both transmitted from each of the other of the plurality of cooking appliances to the one of the plurality of cooking appliances;
- and
- synchronizing a cook time in the one of the plurality of cooking appliances to a user selected remaining cook time from one of the other of the plurality of cooking appliances.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.