Whirlpool Corporation

Randy L Jeffery

Richard A McCoy

Matthew Peter Ebrom

Christopher S Moes

Matthew J Nibbelink

Gale Richard Horst

Andre O Pires

Rodrigo C Castaldo

Mark Eugene Glotzbach

Anthony E Jenkins

Patrick J Glotzbach

Wallace J Elston, Iii

Andrew D Whipple

Randy A Voss

Eduardo K Yamakawa

Cesario Zimmerman

A smart coupler for connecting two networks has a processor, a memory, a means to connect to a first network, a means to connect to a second network, and a power source. The first network has a client, and the memory has information which must be transferred to the client to enable the client to be usefully operable relative to the second network.

Smart coupling device

A network includes a smart coupler having a processor, a memory with software, and a power source to energize the processor and the memory, and an appliance configured to perform an operation on a physical article. The appliance is one that consumes at least some of a resource in performing the operation. The network also includes a source of information about the resource. The smart coupler is in communication with the appliance and the source, and the processor and memory operate to request a change to the operation of the appliance in response to a resource parameter or a request communicated by the source.

Network for changing resource consumption in an appliance

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Stevensville, MI, United States of America

Randy L Jeffery