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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 11, 2014
Whirlpool Corporation, Benton Harbor, MI (US);
Richard J. Hughes, Coloma, MI (US);
Peter J. Melsa, Niles, MI (US);
Brandon L. Satanek, Stevensville, MI (US);
Wen Shi, Stevensville, MI (US);
Whirlpool Corporation, Benton Harbor, MI (US);
Abstract
Example appliances that trigger applications on consumer devices based on user proximity to appliance background are disclosed. A disclosed example system includes an appliance to detect a proximity of a user to the appliance, a remote server to receive a result of the proximity detection from the appliance, and to send an application trigger based on the result, and a user device associated with the user to activate an application on the user device in response to the application trigger received from the remote server.