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US 9,003,317 B2Granted
Method of sorting articles for treatment according to a cycle of operation implemented by an appliance
AssigneeWhirlpool Corporation
InventorsDouglas B. Beaudet, Nima Motamedi
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Abstract
A method of sorting articles for subsequent treatment in an appliance. The method may sort the articles on a mobile device and the sorted articles may be treated according to a cycle of operation implemented by the appliance.
Claims21
A method of sorting by a mobile device a plurality of selected laundry articles currently needing treatment in a laundry treating appliance, the method comprising:
- displaying on the mobile device a list of a plurality of user-selectable laundry articles;
- receiving at the mobile device inputs representative of the plurality of selected laundry articles, at least two of the selected articles appearing on the list and having different types;
- identifying at least one treating criterion for each of the types;
- identifying two or more groups of the selected laundry articles based on the treating criteria, the groups intended for treatment in separate cycles of operation;
- automatically determining by the mobile device a cycle of operation for the appliance for each of the two or more groups;
- and
- displaying on the mobile device a representation of which selected laundry articles were identified as part of each of the two or more groups, and the determined cycle of operation for each group.
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A mobile device comprising:
- a touch sensitive screen;
- a processor;
- and
- a memory storing machine-readable instructions that when executed by the processor cause the mobile device to sort a plurality of selected laundry articles currently needing treatment in a laundry treating appliance by at least:
- displaying on the touch-sensitive screen a list of a plurality of user-selectable laundry articles;
- receiving on the touch-sensitive screen inputs representative of the plurality of selected laundry articles, at least two of the selected articles appearing on the list and having different types;
- identifying at least one treating criterion for each of the types;
- identifying two or more groups of the selected laundry articles based on the treating criteria, the groups intended for treatment in separate cycles of operation;
- determining a cycle of operation for the appliance for each of the two or more groups;
- and
- displaying on the touch-sensitive screen a representation of which selected laundry articles were identified as part of each of the two or more groups, and the determined cycle of operation for each group.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.