Patent ID: 8825516

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving, with a first computing system, a traceability code in association with lot-specific product data including a first time and a first location; storing the lot-specific product data in association with the traceability code in a computer-readable memory device; receiving the traceability code at a second time and in response accessing a record associated with the traceability code to determine non-lot-specific product data that identifies a type of perishable product; sending a grading scale for the type of perishable product after accessing the record associated with the traceability code; receiving location information and a quality assessment about a product contemporaneously with receiving the traceability code; storing the quality assessment in association with the traceability code; determining, with a second computing system, an elapsed time between the second time and the first time and associating the elapsed time with the quality assessment; determining a traversed distance between the first location and a second location derived from the location information, wherein the location information and the quality assessment are received from a communication device; and wherein the traceability code, location information, and the quality assessment are all received within a period of connectivity between the second computing system and the communication device.