Patent ID: 11967196
Assignee: DUKE MANUFACTURING CO.
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  A | IPC A  G

Claim 9:
10. A food preparation apparatus comprising:
a physical data bus;
a communications processor communicatively coupled to the physical data bus, the communications processor communicating on the physical data bus via a publish/subscribe protocol; and
a first memory device communicatively coupled to the communications processor, said first memory device storing processor-executable instructions that, when executed by the communications processor:
create a virtual data bus for transmitting publish/subscribe protocol communications,
execute a web server communicatively coupled to the virtual data bus and configured to enable at least one of a local computer or a remote computer to transmit publish/subscribe protocol communications via the virtual data bus independent of a current functional mode of the food preparation apparatus, and

execute a state machine configured to bridge the virtual data bus and the physical data bus for transmitting the publish/subscribe protocol communications from the virtual data bus to the physical data bus.