Patent Document ID: 10002526
Application ID: 15385570

Base Claim:
1. A method comprising: receiving, by a communication module from a data communication subsystem of an appliance, an appliance message that was transmitted from a component of the appliance through the data communication subsystem; receiving, by the communication module, a plurality of appliance messages transmitted through the data communication subsystem, the appliance message being one of the plurality of appliance messages; filtering, by the communication module, the plurality of appliance messages for a predetermined message type to obtain the appliance message; generating, by the communication module, appliance data based on the appliance message; deleting other received appliance messages of the plurality of appliance messages; transmitting, by the communication module to an Internet-of-Things (IoT) platform adapted to determine an identity of the appliance, the appliance data; and receiving, by the communication module from the IoT platform, appliance-specific data based on the identity of the appliance; wherein the communication module is capable of controlling the appliance as an IoT device only after, and not before, the receiving of the appliance-specific data.

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Claim 16:
16. The method of claim 1 , wherein: the appliance is a thermostat; the component of the appliance that transmitted the appliance message is a controller of the appliance; the appliance message was transmitted from the controller to a burner switch; and the appliance message is a heat-on message that closes the burner switch to turn on a heating element.