Consumer product status monitoring

摘要

Data collection and display representative of at least one characteristic relevant to a product contained in a sealed package, via monitoring at least one characteristic associated with a state condition of said product and displaying a history of said characteristic. The state condition is related to probability of degradation of the product. The monitoring further includes the possibility of analyzing data associated with said characteristic and, based on said analyzing, determining a current state condition of said product which is also displayed. When said current state condition is violative of a predetermined rule, freezing said display with said signal representative of said current state condition or dynamically altering an expiration date.