Patent ID: 7742951

Claim:
A method of enabling adaptable demonstrations of a household appliance comprising: providing a household appliance including: a first component; a second component; a user interface with a multimedia display; a controller configured to perform a specific function that implements both the first and second components; a demonstration software which, when executed by the controller, causes a demonstration of the specific function by implementing the first component but not the second component and further causes a display of information related to the demonstration on the multimedia display; and wherein the household appliance is selected from a group consisting of: a clothes washing machine, a clothes dryer, an oven, a dishwasher, a refrigerator, a freezer, a microwave oven, a trash compactor, and a countertop appliance; determining a characteristic of a consumer within a predefined distance of the household appliance; downloading, to the household appliance, a consumer-specific update for the demonstration software from a remote database, wherein the consumer-specific update is selected based on the characteristic of the consumer; and executing, by the controller, the demonstration software and the consumer-specific update, wherein the demonstration software causes the demonstration of the specific function and the display of the information related to the demonstration and wherein the consumer-specific update causes the demonstration to be tailored to the consumer.