Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.

Chen Lu

Christopher George Bissig

Joel A Persinger

Amy Elizabeth Pryor Hite

Russell Conrad Grant

A cooking engagement system and methods for providing recipe content to a user are provided. The system includes a cooking appliance and an interactive assembly positioned above the cooking appliance. The interactive assembly includes a display device that presents various content to a user, e.g., recipe content. In one example aspect, a user submits a recipe request. The recipe request is routed to one or more third party recipe content providers. A controller of the interactive assembly obtains recipe content from the recipe content providers and causes a display device of the interactive assembly to present the recipe content to the user.

Cooking engagement system equipped with a recipe application for combining third party recipe content

A system and a method for generated synchronized audible communications are provided. In one aspect, a system includes a suite of appliances, including at least a first and second appliance. Each appliance has a speaker operable to generate one or more audible communications. The system includes one or more controllers that output one or more sound commands that cause the speakers of the appliances to generate their respective audible communications. One or more of the appliances include a proximity device operable to detect whether a user is within a proximity range thereof. In some instances, the speakers can generate audible communications to amplify their audible communications. In other instances, the speakers can generate audible communications to create localization cues for directing a user's attention to a particular appliance.

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