Patent ID: 9547851
Date: 2017-01-17
CPC Classifications: F25D,G06Q

Claim:
1. A method for shelf life expiration date management for smart refrigerators, the method comprising: receiving, over a computer communications network, a list of different food items and expiration dates for different food items in the list of different food items by a smart refrigerator comprising a refrigerator and a computer with a memory and at least one processor; prompting, by the smart refrigerator, the consumer to indicate whether a food item on the list of different food items replaces the food item on a second list of different food items already stored in the smart refrigerator upon determining that the food item on the list of different food items already appears on the second list of different food items; updating, by the smart refrigerator, only an expiration date of the food item on the second list of different food items in response to receiving a response from the consumer indicating the food item replaces the food item on the second list of different food items; and, storing, by the smart refrigerator, the expiration dates and the list of different food items in the smart refrigerator.