way of example and not limitation communication media includes wired media such as a wired network or direct wired connection and wireless media such as acoustic rf infrared and other wireless media the term computer readable media as used herein includes both storage media and communication media device 100 may also have input device s 114 such as keyboard mouse pen voice input device touch input device etc in the illustrated example device 100 includes sensor 115 operatively connected to the device while a wired connection is shown one skilled in the art that a sensor may be connected wirelessly such as a remote location such as a store sensor 115 is configured to sense a component identifier as explained throughout the remaining specification output device s 116 such as a display speakers printer etc may also be included all these devices are well know in the art and need not be discussed at length here fig2 shows exemplary embodiments of a computer component associated with packaging having one or more identifiers or tags that are detectable while associated with the packaging the packaging may be any material or structure that holds a product and or data for example paper cardboard plastic wood metal and the like may be used the identifier or tag may be for example a bar code radio frequency identification rfid tag data recorded magnetically or any suitable identifying device in one embodiment an existing upc code may be used as an identifier in another embodiment a unique ir reflective pattern may be utilized.