Method for configuring a cooking appliance by a terminal

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11520603-B2
Application number	US-201716098373-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 28, 2017
Priority date	May 3, 2016
Publication date	Dec 6, 2022
Grant date	Dec 6, 2022

Abstract

A method for configuring a cooking appliance by a terminal capable of exchanging data according to a communication protocol with the cooking appliance, the configuration method including creating and/or selecting a cooking program, the cooking program (prog), creating and/or selecting a desired cooking state corresponding to a state of progress of the implementation of the cooking program, determining cooking configuration data from the cooking program and/or the desired cooking state, and sending the cooking configuration data to the cooking appliance.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for configuration of a cooking appliance by a terminal able to exchange information according to a communication protocol with the cooking appliance, the configuration method comprising the following steps:
creating or selecting a cooking program, said cooking program comprising a relationship between a cooking time and a cooking temperature, or
creating or selecting a desired doneness corresponding to an implementation progress status of the said cooking program,
determining a cooking parameterization information item based on the cooking program or selecting the cooking parameterization information corresponding to the desired doneness, wherein the cooking parameterization information item comprises a set of coefficients corresponding to a time evolution of the cooking temperature, and wherein the coefficients are values used by the processor to determine a cooking setpoint corresponding to one or more time ranges, the one or more time ranges defined by a target cooking temperature and a target cooking time, and
determining an operation mode of the cooking appliance from among a first configuration and a second configuration based on an actuation or lack thereof a switch command on the cooking appliance, wherein, in the first configuration, the cooking appliance is operated to cook a first item in a non-connected mode and, in the second configuration, the cooking appliance is operated to cook a second item in a connected mode,
when the cooking appliance is operated to cook the second item in the connected mode, the method further comprises:
sending said cooking parameterization information item to the cooking appliance, and
applying a verification function to said cooking parameterization information item by a processor of the cooking appliance,

wherein, in the first configuration, the set of coefficients of the cooking parameterization information item are coefficients already contained in a memory of the processor, and in the second configuration, the set of coefficients of the cooking parameterization information item are coefficients downloaded from a remote source.

2. The method for configuring a cooking appliance by a terminal according to claim 1 , further comprising:
creating or selecting a user profile comprising a user identifier, and
assigning said cooking parameterization information item to said user profile.

3. The method of configuring a cooking appliance by a terminal according to claim 2 , wherein a first user profile is assigned to a first cooking parameterization information item and a second user profile is assigned to a second cooking parameterization information item.

4. The method of configuration according to claim 1 , comprising receiving by the terminal at least one cooking program and/or at least one desired doneness and/or at least one cooking parameterization information item from a server.

5. A non-transitory computer readable medium encoded with a program comprising code instructions designed to implement the steps of a method of configuration according to claim 1 when the program is executed on a processor of a terminal.

6. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 5 , wherein the program is designed as an application that can be downloaded to a terminal.

7. A terminal comprising a non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 5 .

8. The method for configuring a cooking appliance by a terminal according to claim 1 , further comprising:
determining, by the processor of the cooking appliance, one of a conformity indicator or an anomaly indicator, based on the application of the verification function.

Assignees

• Seb Sa

Inventors

• Blond Laurent
• Volatier Sébastien
• Masson Antony

Classifications

• G06F9/44505

  Configuring for program initiating, e.g. using registry, configuration files · CPC title

• A47J36/321

  the electronic control being performed over a network, e.g. by means of a handheld device · CPC title

• A47J37/0611

  the food being cooked between two heating plates, e.g. waffle-irons · CPC title

• G06F9/445 Primary

  Program loading or initiating (bootstrapping G06F9/4401; security arrangements for program loading or initiating G06F21/57) · CPC title

• G06F9/4451 Primary

  User profiles; Roaming · CPC title