Patent ID: 7644362

Claim:
A system for providing timing information to a microprocessor-controlled device having a set of mechanical functions that are started and stopped by a time-of-day (TOD), comprising: a device including an integrated microprocessor for controlling the mechanical functions of the device; an interactive interface presented on a display of a computer appliance, separate from the device, having a Universal Serial Bus (USB) port, enabling a user to select through the interactive display individual ones of the set of mechanical functions for the microprocessor-controlled device, and to select specific TOD for starting or stopping the mechanical functions selected; and a thumb drive flash memory unit including a USB connector; wherein the computer appliance saves the TOD selected for each mechanical function selected, in a form compatible with and executable by the microprocessor of the device, to the thumb drive through the USB port, the thumb drive to be carried to the microprocessor-controlled device and engaged to a USB port at the device, to upload the timing information to the microprocessor of the device, the microprocessor altering programmed mechanical functions of the device by executing the uploaded timing information for the mechanical functions of the device.