Patent ID: 6949729

Claim:
A microwave oven system, comprising: the Internet; an information processing apparatus having an output a unit outputting a home page image display and transmitting/receiving information through said Internet; a microwave oven including a control unit for controlling a heating operation in accordance with recipe data being received from the information processing unit wherein the recipe data includes descriptive information regarding material and how to cook the desired recipe and further including heating control data; and a host computer connected to said Internet and having an information storing unit storing home page information corresponding to said home page image display including a cooking recipe screen; wherein said home page information includes recipe data corresponding to each of a plurality of cooking recipes and including descriptive information describing at least one of the how-to-cook and materials and said heating control data recognized by said microwave oven for heating and cooking the cooking recipe, and information corresponding to each of a plurality of cooking recipes and used to display a transfer instructing button provided on said cooking recipe screen displaying said descriptive information and operated to transfer said recipe data through said Internet to said information processing apparatus.