Patent ID: 8342394

Claim:
A system for registering an electrical appliance, comprising: a storage housed within an electrical appliance for storing identifying information about the electrical appliance, and for storing address information usable to obtain an address of a remote recipient corresponding to the electrical appliance; and a wireless communicator comprising: a memory for storing identifying information about a user; an interface connector for connecting the wireless communicator with the electrical appliance; and a wireless modem for transmitting data, wherein when said wireless communicator is first connected with the electrical appliance via said interface connector, said wireless communicator executes program code to register the electrical appliance with the remote recipient corresponding to the electrical appliance, wherein the program code includes instructions that cause said interface connector to receive the identifying information about the electrical appliance, and cause said wireless modem to transmit at least a portion of the identifying information about the electrical appliance and the identifying information about the user to the address of the remote recipient via an SMS message or an MMS message, the address obtained using the address information.