Patent ID: 8924262

Claim:
An assembly, comprising: a stand-alone code-provision device packaged with a defined quantity of a commodity contained in packaging, wherein the code-provision device is configured to provide a signal encoding a registered code configured for ordering the commodity from a supplier, wherein the code-provision device is activated by consumption of a predetermined portion of the defined quantity thereby enabling use of the registration code for ordering the commodity from a supplier, and the assembly is free of any wired interface to any external device, and wherein the code-provision device comprises a processor coupled a memory, and a transmitter coupled to the processor, wherein the memory holds the registered code; and a user input device coupled to the processor, wherein the user input device is positioned to be accessible to a user after the consumption of the predetermined portion of the defined quantity, and is configured to cause the code-provision device to wirelessly transmit the registered code in response to user input.