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US 2017/0135159 A1Published application
Wirelessly operable slow cooker
OwnerNicole Ann Sorenson, Byron Seth Sawyer +8inventors
InventorsNicole Ann Sorenson, Byron Seth Sawyer, Timothy Nott, Dominic DiMarco, David Everett, Jacob Daniel Smith, Karl W. Marschke, Karen Baer, Audra Spahn, Megan Brundridge
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Abstract
A wirelessly operable slow cooker for cooking food products includes a wireless communication device. A computing device, such as a smartphone, can wirelessly communicate with the slow cooker to control and monitor the slow cooker.
Claims20
A slow cooker comprising:
- a housing;
- a heating element disposed within the housing;
- a food contact surface included in the housing;
- and
- a control device configured to communicate with a user computing device via a wireless network, receive a cooking configuration from the user computing device via the wireless network, and control the heating element to heat the food contact surface based upon the cooking configuration.
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A method of controlling a slow cooker, the method comprising:
- receiving cooking configuration data from a user computing device via a wireless network, the cooking configuration data including at least one of a cooking temperature and a cooking time;
- and
- controlling a heating element to heat a food contact surface based on the cooking configuration data.
A remote communication device for use with a slow cooker, the remote communication device comprising:
- a display device;
- a processor;
- and
- a memory coupled to the processor, the memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:
- receive a user's selection of at least one setting to cook a food item using the slow cooker;
- transmit the at least one setting to the slow cooker;
- receive operational data from the slow cooker;
- determine when cooking of the food item is complete;
- and
- display, on the display device, an alert when cooking of the food item is complete.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.