Domestic appliance commissioning
AssigneeHaier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
InventorAnand Ashok Bora
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Abstract
A domestic appliance or method of commissioning may include establishing a wireless connection between a previously commissioned appliance and an uncommissioned appliance over a secondary connection channel. A method may also include transmitting a signal-strength request to the uncommissioned appliance from the previously commissioned appliance. The method may further include receiving signal-strength data corresponding to a local wireless network from the uncommissioned appliance. The method may still further include evaluating the signal-strength data and initiating a user alert from the previously commissioned appliance based on the evaluated signal-strength data.
Claims14
A method of commissioning a domestic appliance, the method comprising:
- establishing a wireless connection between a previously commissioned appliance and an uncommissioned appliance over a secondary connection channel;
- transmitting a signal-strength request to the uncommissioned appliance from the previously commissioned appliance;
- receiving signal-strength data corresponding to a local wireless network from the uncommissioned appliance;
- evaluating the signal-strength data;
- and
- initiating a user alert from the previously commissioned appliance based on the evaluated signal-strength data;
- wherein evaluating the signal-strength data comprises comparing the received signal-strength data to a minimum strength threshold;
- and
- wherein the received signal-strength data is determined to be below the minimum strength threshold, wherein initiating the user alert is in response to the received signal-strength data being determined to be below the minimum strength threshold.
A domestic appliance comprising:
- a cabinet;
- and
- a controller configured to initiate a commissioning operation, the commissioning operation comprising
- establishing a wireless connection between the domestic appliance and an uncommissioned appliance over a secondary connection channel,
- transmitting a signal-strength request to the uncommissioned appliance from the domestic appliance,
- receiving signal-strength data corresponding to a local wireless network from the uncommissioned appliance,
- evaluating the signal-strength data, and
- initiating a user alert from the domestic appliance based on the evaluated signal-strength data, wherein evaluating the signal-strength data comprises comparing the received signal-strength data to a minimum strength threshold, and
- wherein the received signal-strength data is determined to be below the minimum strength threshold, wherein initiating the user alert is in response to the received signal-strength data being determined to be below the minimum strength threshold.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.