Controlling food processing steps of a multi-function cooking apparatus and remote kitchen appliances

US10660465B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• VORWERK & CO. INTERHOLDING GMBH · DE

Inventors

• Maximilian Koennings · Zürich, CH
• Maria Jose Resende · Lisbon, PT
• Georg Hackert · Bochum, DE
• Julius Ganns · Wuppertal, DE
• Stefan Hilgers · Essen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 8, 2017
• Grant date: May 26, 2020
• Expiry date: Jan 25, 2038

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G05B2219/2643
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A control system, method and computer program product for controlling food processing steps performed by a multi-function cooking apparatus and food processing steps performed by one or more remote kitchen appliances for preparing a food product. A recipe program interface is configured to access on a data storage device a recipe program for preparing the food product wherein the recipe program is configured to be executed by the cooking apparatus and to synchronize food processing steps performed by the cooking apparatus with food processing steps performed by the one or more remote kitchen appliances. A validation component is configured to check if the one or more remote kitchen appliances are registered with the cooking apparatus in an appliance registry, and is further configured to check if technical specifications of registered remote kitchen appliances comply with control parameters in respective recipe program instructions.