Method for managing appliances
AssigneeSanDisk Corporation
InventorJoerg Ferchau
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Abstract
A method for maintaining and/or repairing an appliance is provided. The appliance includes collecting data from the appliance, wherein a flash device collects information from the appliance; launching an application from the flash device after the flash device interfaces with a computing system, wherein the application provides a user interface with selectable options for maintaining and/or repairing the appliance; contacting a server, wherein the computing system has access to a network connection and connects to the server; and transmitting the collected information from the flash device to the server.
Claims12
A method for maintaining and/or repairing a appliance, comprising:
- Collecting data from the appliance, wherein a flash device collects information from the appliance;
- Launching an application from the flash device after the flash device interfaces with a computing system, wherein the application provides a user interface with selectable options for maintaining and/or repairing the appliance;
- Contacting a server, wherein the computing system has access to a network connection and connects to the server;
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- Transmitting the collected information from the flash device to the server.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.