Patent ID: 7133739
Filing Date: 2006-11-07
Classification: H04H,H04N,H05B

Abstract:
1. A microwave oven apparatus, comprising: a housing; a microwave generator disposed in association with the housing; a code input device; a controller that stores a plurality of recipe programs upon receipt of the plurality of programs at the network interface or the user interface and operates the microwave generator in accordance with a recipe program selected from the plurality of recipe programs in view of a code input by the code input device; a network interface in communication with the controller; and a user interface to permit a user to manually input a user programmed recipe programs; wherein upon entry of a code input by the code input device, the controller determines whether the code corresponds to any one of the plurality of recipe programs stored in the controller; and wherein if the code does not correspond to any one of the plurality of recipe programs stored in the controller, the network interface requests, without user intervention, a recipe program corresponding to the code from an external database, and automatically downloads the recipe program that corresponds to the code.