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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2017
Whirlpool Corporation, Benton Harbor, MI (US);
Wyndham F. Gary, Jr., St. Joseph, MI (US);
Neomar Giacomini, St. Joseph, MI (US);
Richard J. Hughes, St. Joseph, MI (US);
Michael J. Jakeway, Bridgeman, MI (US);
Christopher W. Kelson, St. Joseph, MI (US);
Saket Singh, Stevensville, MI (US);
Andrew Benedict Artis, Orlando, FL (US);
Whirlpool Corporation, Benton Harbor, MI (US);
Abstract
A system for controlling a plurality of appliances is disclosed. The appliances comprise a plurality of controllers in communication with a mobile device. Each of the controllers is configured to receive an instruction from the mobile device corresponding to a selected mode of a plurality of modes and apply the selected mode among the plurality of appliances as a selected global setting of a plurality of available global settings. The controller is further operable to activate an appliance specific control routine for each of the plurality of appliances based on the selected global setting and control each appliance based on the appliance specific control routine. The appliance specific control routine comprises a plurality of controls configured control an operation of each of the appliances causing the operation to conform to the selected mode.