Communication of digital information presented on an appliance display

摘要

A system and method of communicating information associated with an appliance is provided. An appliance can present an optical machine-readable representation, such as a linear or matrix barcode, on a display of the appliance. The optical machine-readable representation can encode information associated with an event occurrence for the appliance. A client, such as a computer, smartphone, tablet, etc., can capture information indicative of the optical machine-readable representation. The client computing device can then access information, such as diagnostic information, responsive to the optical machine-readable representation.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method of communicating information associated with a refrigerator, comprising:
capturing, at a computing device, information indicative of an optical machine-readable representation of information, the optical machine-readable representation presented on a digital display of a refrigerator, the optical machine-readable representation comprising a matrix barcode generated responsive to a detection of an event occurrence associated with the refrigerator, wherein the event occurrence is associated with a need to replace a water filter associated with the refrigerator; and accessing, with the computing device, data associated with the refrigerator responsive to the optical machine-readable representation, the data indicative of commercial information associated with purchasing a replacement water filter.