Patent ID: 8250163
Filing Date: 2012-08-21
Classification: G06F,H04L,H05B,Y02B

Abstract:
1. A smart coupler for communicatively connecting to an appliance configured to perform a cycle of operation on a physical article and having at least one appliance component and at least one controller enabled to control the at least one appliance component, wherein at least one appliance component has means to control at least one portion of the cycle of operation, the smart coupler comprising: a processor, memory, means to communicatively connect to the at least one controller, and a software component in the memory, wherein the software component includes programmed code having information effective to enable the appliance to build the at least one portion of the cycle of operation at runtime when the software component is communicated, by using the processor, from the memory of the smart coupler to the at least one controller and installed on to the appliance so the built at least one portion of the cycle of operation can be executed by the at least one controller and control the at least one appliance component.