Patent ID: 9208520
Filing Date: 2015-12-08
Classification: F25D,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for shelf life expiration date management for smart refrigerators, the method comprising: identifying a consumer during a point of sale transaction for purchasing different food items by a point of sale computer system; selecting, by the point of sale computer system, an address of a smart refrigerator corresponding to the identified consumer, the smart refrigerator comprising a refrigerator and a computer with a memory and at least one processor; transmitting a list of different food items and expiration dates for different food items in the list of different food items directly from the point of sale computer system to the smart refrigerator over a computer communications network; 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 an expiration date table on 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 expiration date table on the smart refrigerator.