# US 2023/0055413 A1 · Method for operating a domestic appliance, computer program product and arrangement comprising a domestic appliance and an external operating device > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2023/0055413 A1 - Document ID: US20230055413A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 17/792,422 - Filed: 2021-01-21 - Published: 2023-02-23 - Earliest claimed: 2020-02-03 - Assignees: BSH Hausgeräte GmbH - Applicants: BSH Hausgeräte GmbH - Inventors: Klaus-Martin Forst; Sebastian Wagner - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20230055413A1 ## CPC - G08C 17/00: Arrangements for transmitting signals characterised by the use of a wireless electrical link - H04L 12/2807: {Exchanging configuration information on appliance services in a home automation network (arrangements for maintenance or administration involving network analysis for automatically determining the actual topology of a network H04L41/12; hardware or software tools for network management using graphical user interfaces H04L41/22; address allocation H04L61/50)} - G08C 17/02: using a radio link - G08C 2201/12: Power saving techniques of remote control or controlled devices - G08C: TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS FOR MEASURED VALUES, CONTROL OR SIMILAR SIGNALS (fluid pressure transmitting systems F15B; mechanical means for transferring the output of a sensing member into a different variable G01D5/00; mechanical control systems G05G) - H04L: TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) ## Abstract In a method for operating a household appliance, a communications connection is established between an external operating facility and the household appliance. An application is executed on the external operating facility and configured so as to receive data from and/or to transmit data to the household appliance via the communications connection. An interaction of a user with the application of the external operating facility is detected and the communications connection between the external operating facility and the household appliance is terminated in dependence upon an expiration of a predetermined time interval since a last detected interaction of the user with the application of the external operating facility. ## Claims ### Claim at position 1 1-14. (canceled) ### Claim 15 A method for operating a household appliance, said method comprising: establishing a communications connection between an external operating facility and the household appliance; executing on the external operating facility an application that is configured so as to receive data from and/or to transmit data to the household appliance via the communications connection; detecting an interaction of a user with the application of the external operating facility; and terminating the communications connection between the external operating facility and the household appliance in dependence upon an expiration of a predetermined time interval since a last detected interaction of the user with the application of the external operating facility. ### Claim 16 (depends on 15) The method of claim 15 for operating a water-conducting household appliance. ### Claim 17 (depends on 15) The method of claim 15, wherein termination of the communications connection between the external operating facility and the household appliance comprises placing the household appliance into an energy saving mode in which an energy consumption of the household appliance is below a predetermined upper limit. ### Claim 18 (depends on 17) The method of claim 17, wherein the household appliance is placed into the energy saving mode in dependence upon a command that is transmitted by the application of the external operating facility to the household appliance. ### Claim 19 (depends on 17) The method of claim 17, wherein the energy consumption of the household appliance in the energy saving mode is at most 2 Watts. ### Claim 20 (depends on 15) The method of claim 15, wherein detection of the interaction of the user with the application on the external operating facility comprises a detection of eye contact of the user with the application on the external operating facility. ### Claim 21 (depends on 15) The method of claim 15, wherein the predetermined time interval comprises at most 15 minutes. ### Claim 22 (depends on 15) The method of claim 15, further comprising: waking the household appliance from an energy saving mode so as to establish the communications connection; and placing the household appliance into a data query mode in which exclusively components of the household appliance that are required for the transmission and/or receiving of data by the application on the external operating facility are activated. ### Claim 23 (depends on 15) The method of claim 15, further comprising transmitting a push notification from the household appliance to the application on the external operating facility. ### Claim 24 (depends on 23) The method of claim 23, wherein the push notification is periodically transmitted or is transmitted in the case of a change in state of the household appliance. ### Claim 25 (depends on 15) A non-transitory computer program product with commands that execute a method set forth in claim 15 when the commands are executed on a computer. ### Claim 26 An arrangement, comprising: a household appliance; an external operating facility; a communications connection configured to couple the household appliance and the external operating facility; and an application executable on the external operating facility and configured to receive data from and/or to transmit data to the household appliance via the communications connection, to detect during execution of the application on the external operating facility an interaction of a user with the application, and to terminate the communications connection between the external operating facility and the household appliance in dependence upon an expiration of a predetermined time interval since a last detected interaction of the user with the application on the external operating facility. ### Claim 27 (depends on 26) The arrangement of claim 26, wherein the application or the household appliance is configured to place the household appliance after termination of the communications connection into an energy saving mode, in which an energy consumption of the household appliance is below a predetermined upper limit. ### Claim 28 (depends on 26) The arrangement of claim 26, wherein the external operating facility comprises an image capturing facility for capturing an image of a surrounding area of the external operating facility, said application being configured to detect in dependence upon the captured image an eye contact of the user with the application on the external operating facility and in dependence upon the detected eye contact to detect the interaction of the user with the application on the external operating facility. ### Claim 29 (depends on 26) The arrangement of claim 26, wherein the application on the external operating facility is configured to wake the household appliance from the energy saving mode and to place the household appliance into a data query mode in which exclusively components of the household appliance that are required for transmission and/or receiving of data by the application are activated.