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US 2015/0310185 A1Published application
In-home iot medication device
OwnerAshok Deepak Shahinventor
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Abstract
Technologies for implementing an IOT medication device for use in the home of a patient are described herein. The IOT medication device comprises a controller, at least one near-field communication (“NFC”) transceiver, and one or more displays. The NFC transceiver is operably connected to the controller and configured to read data from an NFC tag attached to a medication container placed in proximity to the transceiver. The controller can then display information related to a medication contained in the medication container on the one or more displays.
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An apparatus comprising:
- a controller;
- at least one near-field communication (“NFC”) transceiver operably connected to the controller and configured to read data from an NFC tag attached to a medication container placed in proximity to the at least one NFC transceiver;
- and
- one or more displays operably connected to the controller and configured to display information related to a medication contained in the medication container.
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A system comprising:
- a database containing an identifier of a medication container and information regarding a medication prescription associated with the medication container;
- a cloud service operably connected to the database and exposing an API to the Internet;
- and
- an IOT medication device connected to the Internet and comprising at least one NFC transceiver and one or more displays, the IOT medication device configured to
- read data from an NFC tag attached to the medication container when the medication container is placed in proximity to the at least one NFC transceiver,
- retrieve the information regarding the medication prescription from the cloud service through the API based on the data read from the NFC tag, and
- display at least a part of the information to the one or more displays.
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A method comprising steps of:
- receiving, at a cloud service, a unique identifier of an NFC tag embedded in a medication container and data associated with the medication container;
- storing the data in a database associated with the unique identifier;
- receiving, at the cloud service, a request for the data associated with the medication container, the request containing the unique identifier;
- and
- retrieving the data associated with the medication container based on the unique identifier and responding to the request with the data.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.