Shelf life expiration date management

摘要

Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for shelf life expiration date management for smart refrigerators. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for shelf life expiration date management for smart refrigerators is provided. The method includes identifying a consumer during a point of sale transaction for purchasing different food items by a point of sale computer system, for example by scanning a bar code or reading a magnetic strip of a loyalty program card or reading a radio frequency identification (RFID) dongle. A list of the different food items can be provided to the smart refrigerator, for example from storage in the loyalty program card or RFID dongle, or as transmitted from the point of sale computer system to the smart refrigerator over a computer communications network. Finally, expiration dates can be determined for the food items in the list and stored in the smart refrigerator.

主权项

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.