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US 11,888,640 B2Granted
System and method for data transmission for appliance
AssigneeHaier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
InventorsHaitian Hu, Steven Keith Root, Hairong Li, James Quentin Pollett
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Abstract
A system and method for data transmission and performance improvement for an appliance is provided. The system includes an appliance including a controller operably connected to a network computing device. The controller is configured to transmit a packet to a network computing device. The packet includes genealogical data for the appliance encoded in a positional numeral system. The network computing device is configured to receive the packet and decode the genealogical data for the appliance. Decoding includes translating the positional numeral system to an appliance configuration.
Claims17
An appliance data transmission system, the system comprising:
- an appliance comprising a controller operably connected to a network computing device, the controller configured to encode genealogical data to a packet in hexadecimal format, wherein the genealogical data is encoded in a positional numeral system, the genealogical data comprising a configuration identifier, a manufacturer identifier, a logistical identifier, a version identifier, or combinations thereof, allowing for differentiation of appliances of the same model type based on one or more of the configuration identifier, the manufacturer identifier, the logistical identifier, or the version identifier, the controller configured to periodically transmit the packet to the network computing device;
- wherein the network computing device is configured to receive the packet and decode the genealogical data for the appliance, wherein decoding comprises translating the positional numeral system to an appliance configuration, and
- wherein the network computing device is configured to compare genealogical data from a plurality of packets periodically received from each of a plurality of the appliances, and
- wherein the network computing device is configured to compare genealogical data from the periodically transmitted packets to determine at the remote server an operational parameter adjustment corresponding to one or more of the configuration identifier, the manufacturer identifier, the logistical identifier, or the version identifier associated with one or more appliance configurations corresponding to one or more appliances of the plurality of the appliances;
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- wherein the network computing device is configured to compare appliance configurations to identify a trend, a correlation, a regression, an interpolation, or an extrapolation associated with the appliance configurations of the plurality of the appliances, and wherein the operational parameter adjustment identifies a defective component associated with one or more appliance configurations.
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A computer-implemented method for data transmission and diagnostics for an appliance, the method comprising:
- periodically transmitting a plurality of packets from each of a plurality of appliances to a remote server through a network, wherein each packet comprises genealogical data encoded in a positional numeral system, the genealogical data comprising a configuration identifier, a manufacturer identifier, a logistical identifier, a version identifier, or combinations thereof, allowing for differentiation of one or more components of the plurality of appliances based on one or more of the configuration identifier, the manufacturer identifier, the logistical identifier, or the version identifier, wherein differentiation of one or more components of the plurality of appliances allows for differentiation of the plurality of appliances of similar model type;
- receiving, at the remote server, the plurality of packets from each of the plurality of appliances;
- decoding, at the remote server, the genealogical data for each of the plurality the appliances, wherein decoding comprises translating the positional numeral system to an appliance configuration corresponding to each of the plurality of appliances;
- comparing, at the remote server, appliance configurations corresponding to each of the plurality of appliances, wherein comparing appliance configurations comprises identifying a trend, a correlation, a regression, an interpolation, or an extrapolation associated with the appliance configurations of the plurality of appliances;
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- determining, from comparing the appliance configurations, an operational parameter adjustment corresponding to one or more of the configuration identifier, the manufacturer identifier, the logistical identifier, or the version identifier associated with one or more appliance configurations corresponding to one or more appliances of the plurality of appliances, wherein determining the operational parameter adjustment identifies a defective component associated with one or more appliance configurations.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.