General Electric Company

Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.

Myles Caley

Robert Marten Bultman

Natarajan Venkatakrishnan

Michael Thomas Beyerle

William Anthony Watts

Beau Muniz

Thomas Charles Zimmer

Jedediah Dawson

Quinton Burns

Elmer Weston Brown

Mark Rondina

Jeremy Michael Miller

Edward Robert Melski

A method for coordinating remote user engagement and instructional demonstrations may include transmitting an instructor video signal from the instructor device, receiving a communication request from the remote audience device, assigning the remote audience device a queue position for a communication queue according to the received communication request, and indexing one or more audience devices automatically into an active speaker role according to the communication queue. The method may further provide for directing display of a countdown or restricting audio from other devices.

Methods of coordinating remote user engagement and instructional demonstrations

A method and system for operating a water heater appliance are provided. The method and system include initiating a vacation mode of the water heater appliance. An operating temperature of the water heater appliance is reduced from a normal operating temperature to a vacation operating temperature in the vacation mode of the water heater appliance. The method and system also include sanitizing the water heater appliance by raising the operating temperature of the water heater appliance from the vacation operating temperature to a sanitization operating temperature.

Method and system for operating a water heater appliance

The present subject matter relates to systems and methodologies for communicating between an appliance and a mobile device using audio signaling. An appliance is provided with an audio generating device controlled by a processor to cause the audio device to produce encoded sounds. The sounds may correspond to a series of tones. The tones are sampled using the microphone in a smartphone or other mobile computing device and decoded by an application running on the smartphone or device to provide information and/or instructions to the appliance user.

Mobile phone to appliance communication via audio sampling

System, method, and computer-readable instructions for use in communicating with an energy management device in a network that comprises one or more energy devices. First search results are created by searching for devices associated with a first energy management device identifier using a first discovery protocol. Second search results are created by searching for devices associated with a second energy management device identifier using a second discovery protocol. The first and second search results are combined to create a collection of candidate devices, and at least one candidate device of the candidate devices is validated to determine whether the candidate device is an energy management device.

System and methods for use in communicating with an energy management device in an energy device network

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LaGrange, KY, United States of America

Myles Caley