Dynamic display of favorite cycles on a laundry appliance
AssigneeHaier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
InventorsHaitian Hu, James Quentin Pollett
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Abstract
A laundry appliance includes a tub positioned within a cabinet, a basket rotatably mounted within the tub and defining a chamber configured for receiving a load of clothes, a user interface panel mounted to the cabinet, and a controller in operative communication with the user interface panel. The controller is configured to determine the laundry appliance has been turned on, obtain a list of favorite operating cycles based on historical data related to operating cycles performed by the laundry appliance, and display the list of favorite operating cycles on the user interface panel for selection by a user through the user interface panel.
Claims20
A laundry appliance comprising:
- a cabinet;
- a tub positioned within the cabinet;
- a basket rotatably mounted within the tub and defining a chamber configured for receiving a load of clothes;
- a user interface panel mounted to the cabinet;
- and
- a controller in operative communication with the user interface panel, the controller being configured to:
- determine the laundry appliance has been turned on;
- obtain a list of favorite operating cycles based on historical data related to operating cycles performed by the laundry appliance;
- and
- display the list of favorite operating cycles on the user interface panel for selection by a user through the user interface panel.
A method of operating a laundry appliance, the laundry appliance comprising a user interface panel, the method comprising:
- determining the laundry appliance has been turned on;
- obtaining a list of favorite operating cycles based on historical data related to operating cycles performed by the laundry appliance;
- and
- displaying the list of favorite operating cycles on the user interface panel for selection by a user through the user interface panel.
A method of operating a remote server to operate a laundry appliance, the method comprising:
- receiving historical data related to operating cycles performed by the laundry appliance;
- analyzing the historical data to generate a list of favorite operating cycles based on the historical data related to the operating cycles performed by the laundry appliance;
- and
- communicating the list of favorite operating cycles to the laundry appliance for display and selection on a user interface panel of the laundry appliance.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.