Patent Document ID: 8930396
Application ID: 13560490
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for detecting an appliance based on users' feedback information, comprising the steps of: 1. obtaining the users' feedback information on an appliance, the feedback information being inputted by users or a search result of the appliances being confirmed by the users to generate a mapping between the model of the appliances and at least one load signature of each model of appliances, wherein the load signature is produced by a voltage and/or current change when the appliance is turned on/off and/or the operating states of the appliance is being changed; 2. computing occurrence of any one of signature of the appliance and an identification rate of each signature with the users' feedback information and the occurrence of any one of the signature of the appliance is further defined as a confidence factor, and the identification rate of each signature is further defined as a signature weighted value; and 3. using a joint strategic decision search algorithm to automatically determine models of appliances, and analyze operating conditions of the appliances.