General Electric Company

Tanveer Iqbal

Wolfgang Daum

John Steven Holmes

Scott Charles Evans

William Hull Bicknell

Scott Alan Horning

John Erik Hershey

John Kenneth Hooker

Robert Marten Bultman

Ziqiang Hu

Brian Patrick Lenhart, Jr

Kresimir Odorcic

Cecilia Maria Blanchard

Kevin Andrew Guenther

A method and apparatus for communicating between an appliance and a power line carrier communication system includes at least one power line carrier connection, at least one appliance connection, and processing circuitry for translating between an appliance communication protocol and a power line carrier communication protocol. The method and apparatus allow bidirectional communication between power line carrier and apparatus.

Method and apparatus for interfacing a power line carrier and an appliance

Appliances ( and ) are controlled by providing a source ( ) of command fields (CMD, FIG. ) that include a context subfield (Community, FIG. ) defining operating modes and a command subfield (Command, FIG. ) defining operations to be performed within the context subfield. A network ( ) transmits the command fields between the source and the appliance. A controller ( ) processes the command fields so that an operation defined by one of the command subfields is performed.

Internet enabled appliance command structure

A user interface for an oven including at least one heating element is described. The interface includes a reconfigurable display for indicating a plurality of oven control options and a plurality of selectors adjacent said display for user selection of said options. Each of said selectors correspond to one of said options indicated in said display, and a processor is configured to operate said display in response to manipulation of said plurality of selectors with selection specific menus and to control the heating element according to inputs obtained through said selection specific menus.

Oven display and user interface

An appliance control system is configured to operate an appliance in at least a normal mode and a holiday mode wherein normal mode operation of appliance feature elements is altered to better conform to religious customs, such as Orthodox Jewish customs. In response to user manipulation of a control interface panel, the control system is configured to enter the holiday mode upon user manipulation of the control interface panel with a designated key sequence. When in the holiday mode, response to user manipulation of the control interface panel is delayed for a randomly determined time, and appliance features of the normal mode that violate religious custom are disabled.

Methods and apparatus for shabbos/yom tov appliance control

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Louisville, KY, United States of America

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