Patent ID: 7117051

Claim:
An intelligent appliance control system comprising: a data interface adapted to place an associated appliance in data communication with an associated remote user interface; means adapted for acquiring state information from the associated appliance, which state information is representative of at least one of a current and future state of the associated appliance; means adapted for communicating the state information to the data interface, whereby the state information is made available for communication to the associated remote user interface; the data interface including means adapted for acquiring state change information received from the associated remote user interface, representative of at least one altered, desired future state of the associated appliance; means adapted for generating a state change signal representative of the desired future state of the associated appliance; the means adapted for generating a state change signal include means adapted for selecting an operation to be performed; means adapted for communicating the state change signal to the associated appliance; wherein the operation to be performed is one of the group consisting of retrieving a list of available dishes, creating a new dish, modifying an existing dish, and deleting a stored dish.