Patent ID: 11943299
Assignee: BUNN-O-MATIC CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 6:
7. A beverage status communication system comprising:
one or more brewing devices configured to brew a brewed beverage;
one or more beverage containers configured to hold the brewed beverage, wherein at least a portion of the one or more brewed beverage containers include no internal power source, but include a power cord to dock with a power source;
one or more stands each with a platform to support at least one of the one or more brewed beverage containers, wherein at least a portion of the one or more stands include at least one power port, wherein when the power cord of a respective brewed beverage container of the one or more brewed beverage containers is docked with the at least one power port of a respective stand of the one or more stands, the respective stand supplies electrical power to the respective brewed beverage container;
wherein the respective stand and the respective brewed beverage container include respective power line communication subsystems to establish data communications therebetween over the power cord of the respective brewed beverage container, wherein the respective stand is configured to receive one or more status updates from the respective brewed beverage container over the power cord; and
wherein the one or more stands are configured to be placed in a service location remote from the one or more brewing devices and at least a portion of the one or more stands include a wireless communication subsystem configured to wirelessly send one or more of the one or more status updates regarding the respective brewed beverage container received via the power cord;
wherein at least a portion of the one or more brewing devices comprises:
a network connection manager configured to establish a wireless network connection with one or more mobile computing devices, the one or more stands, and/or the one or more brewing devices;
a brewing operation manager configured to facilitate brewing of brewed beverages into the one or more beverage containers;
a monitoring manager configured to receive one or more status updates from the one or more remote stands and/or the one or more brewing devices regarding the one or more brewed beverage containers; and
a user interface manager configured to establish a user interface from which the one or more mobile computing devices can view the one or more status updates regarding the one or more brewed beverage containers, wherein the user interface manager is configured to enable one or more of adding, deleting and/or adjusting a spatial arrangement of elements representing the one or more remote stands on the user interface.