Bunn-O-Matic Corporation

Joshua T Craig

Prashanth Sankaran

Barry O'Dell

Jacob P Perry

John E Thing

A brewing device, a stand, and server for remotely monitoring a brewed beverage's status. The stand and/or server includes a wireless communication subsystem to establish wireless communications with a remote brewing device. The stand and/or brewer may wirelessly send one or more of the status updates regarding the brewed beverage server to the remote brewing device with the wireless communication subsystem. The remote brewer device establishes a user interface from which the status updates can be viewed by mobile device(s) wirelessly connected to the brewer device.

Brewer communication system and method

A brewer device with a brewer control system and a user interface is provided. The brewer control system is configured to dispense a brewed beverage and includes a freshness monitor to generate a freshness status of respective brewed beverages dispensed by the brewer control system into a plurality of servers. The user interface includes an output device to present the freshness status of the respective brewed beverages in the plurality of servers. The freshness monitor is local to the brewer control system without needing to establish communications with any of the plurality of servers.

Brewer device with freshness monitor

An update device for providing configuration updates, such as recipes, advertising content, software update(s), pricing updates and/or other changes to brewer parameters, to a brewer device. When turned on, the update device wirelessly connects to a cloud account associated with the brewer device. Any pending content updates associated with the cloud account are wirelessly delivered to the update device and stored. When the update device is connected to the brewer device, the update device emulates a disk drive to transfer the updates to the brewer device.

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Springfield, IL, United States of America

Joshua T Craig