Patent ID: 9641596
Date: 2017-05-02
CPC Classifications: G06Q,H04L,H04M

Claim:
1. A home appliance information management apparatus which collects, from a home electrical appliance, home appliance information which is information related to the home electrical appliance, and provides users of the home electrical appliance with to-be-provided information which is information obtained from the collected home appliance information, the home appliance information management apparatus comprising: a processor; and a first non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having stored thereon executable instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the home appliance information management apparatus to: manage the home appliance information; receive user identification information of each user of the users of the home electrical appliance; receive identification information of the home electrical appliance; receive information set by each user of the home electrical appliance, the information set by each user including first information set by a first user of the users, and other information set by at least one other user of the users different from the first user; hold, in a second non-transitory computer-readable recording medium, the user identification information of each user, the identification information of the home electrical appliance, the information set by each user, and the home appliance information, thereby registering the home electrical appliance with the home appliance information management apparatus, the information set by each user being information for allowing sharing of the collected home appliance information between the users of the home electrical appliance, and the home appliance information including operation history collected from the home electrical appliance, for each user of the users who operates the home electrical appliance; and