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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 17, 2013
Applicant:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Inventors:
Myles D. Caley, La Grange, KY (US);
Robert Marten Bultman, Louisville, KY (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/00 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/001 (2013.01);
Abstract
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.