Patent ID: 9684938
Date: 2017-06-20
CPC Classifications: G06Q

Claim:
1. A method of acquiring information of a previous network-connected electronic appliance from a server for utilization of the information in a new network-connected electronic appliance that replaces the previous network-connected electronic appliance, by using an appliance manager that is a device having a network interface and at least one hardware processor and is connected to the new network-connected electronic appliance through a computer network, the method comprising: receiving, by the network interface of the appliance manager, from the new network-connected electronic appliance that replaces the previous network-connected electronic appliance, information indicating a product type of the new network-connected electronic appliance, data identification corresponding to particular information, and information regarding an entity to which the new network-connected electronic appliance belongs; generating an integrated identifier of the new network-connected electronic appliance that enables inheritance of information between the previous network-connected electronic appliance and the new network-connected electronic appliance, wherein the generating of the integrated identifier of the new network-connected electronic appliance comprises: transmitting, by the network interface, the generated integrated identifier of the new network-connected electronic appliance to the server, the server being external to the appliance manager, having a database in which information of a plurality of electronic appliances are stored according to a plurality of integrated identifiers respectively corresponding to the plurality of electronic appliances, and configured to extract the information of the previous network-connected electronic appliance from the database by using the integrated identifier to identify the information; receiving, by the network interface, from the server, the extracted information of the previous network-connected electronic appliance together with the integrated identifier; and transmitting, by the network interface, the received information of the previous network-connected electronic appliance to the new network-connected electronic appliance, wherein