Automated appliance registration

US8342394B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Google LLC · US

Inventors

• Itay Sherman · Hod HaSharon, IL
• Eyal Bychkov · Hod HaSharon, IL
• Uri Ron · Herzliya, IL
• Hagay Katz · Tira, IL
• Hagit Perry · Herzliya, IL
• Ran Margalit · Ramat HaSharon, IL

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 10, 2012
• Grant date: Jan 1, 2013
• Expiry date: Jan 10, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02D30/70
• WIPO field: Telecommunications
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A system for registering an electrical appliance, including a storage housed within an electrical appliance for storing identifying information about the electrical appliance, and for storing address information usable o obtain an address of a remote recipient corresponding o the electrical appliance, and a wireless communicator including a memory for storing identifying information about a user, and a wireless modem for ransmiWng data, wherein when the wireless communicator is first connected with the electrical appliance, the wireless communicator executes program code o register the electrical appliance with the remote recipient, wherein the program code includes insrucions that cause the wireless modem o ransmi a lease a portion of the identifying information about the electrical appliance and the identifying information about the user o the address of the remote recipient, the address obtained using the address information.