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.

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.

Abstract: A system for home appliance control includes a plurality of home appliance controllers and a cloud-based service connected to these home appliance controllers through networking Each home appliance controller is configured to communicate with the cloud-based service via a bi-directional asynchronous messaging protocol regarding at least one home appliance. The cloud-based service includes a first interface and a second interface. The first interface is configured to receive a push request and send a push response related to at least one home appliance. The second interface is configured to communicate with the plurality of home appliance controllers.

Abstract: A system and method of remotely communicating with an appliance system is provided. A remote device, such as a computer, a smartphone, a tablet, etc., can request information associated with a home appliance over a communication network. The information can be stored in a memory of the appliance in a data structure having a plurality of resources organized pursuant to a Representational State Transfer (REST) resource orientated architecture. A representation of a plurality of resources can include a layered structure having a hierarchy having subordinate resources. Each subordinate resource can provide more detailed information. Information relating to a data path needed to read the resource corresponding to the requested information as well as information relating to navigating to subordinate resources if requested can be included in the representation of each resource. The home appliance can provide the remote device a representation of the resource corresponding to the requested information.