Product assembly assistance employing tagged components
AssigneeEmpire Technology Development LLC
InventorEzekiel Kruglick
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Abstract
Technologies are generally described for providing instructional media for assembly of a product from multiple components. In some examples, a standalone or web-based application for assisting with assembly of items may be informed of the state of the ongoing unpacking and/or assembly through optically, wirelessly, or comparably readable tags associated with the individual components of a disassembled item. Based on received data on state of assembly and which parts a user is accessing, the application may select appropriate instructional media, including detection of when assembly has gone wrong in order to coach the user through the assembly process and/or corrections.
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A computer-implemented method for providing instructional media for assembly of a product from a plurality of components, the method comprising:
- receiving data that is effective to identify a state of a component among the plurality of components;
- identifying the state of the component based on the received data;
- selecting instructional media based on the state of the component;
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- providing the selected instructional media associated with an assembly of the product based at least in part on the identification of the state of the component to a user-identified client device.
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A computing device configured to provide interactive instructional media for assembling components of a product, the computing device comprising:
- a memory configured to store instructions;
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- a processor configured to execute an application for providing interactive product assembly instructions in conjunction with the instructions stored in the memory, wherein the application is configured to:
- receive data that is effective to identify a state of a component among the plurality of components;
- identify the state of the component based on the received data;
- select instructional media based on the state of the component;
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- provide the selected instructional media associated with an assembly of the product based at least in part on the identification of the state of the component to a user-identified client device.
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A computer readable memory device with instructions stored thereon for providing interactive instructional media for assembling components of a product, the instructions comprising:
- receiving data that is effective to identify a stage of assembly of the product;
- identifying the stage of assembly of the product based on the received data;
- selecting instructional media based on stage of assembly of the product;
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- providing the selected instructional media associated with an assembly of the product based at least in part on the identification of the stage of assembly of the product to a user-identified client device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.