Apparatus and method for dispensing medication from a mobile communicaton device

A medication dispensing portable communication device case, comprising:

• a communication device case having a device recess configured to removably hold at least a portion of a portable communication device therein;
• a portable communication device case having a dispensing port stoppered by a covering structure;
• a dial medication storage recess extending through a backplane of the device recess, a dial medication storage portion held within the dial medication storage recess and being located adjacent to the device recess, the dial medication storage portion including a pill plate, the pill plate having a plurality of individual medication cups, and the pill plate being placed inside a pill plate housing covered by an outer cover;
• the pill plate including a plurality of individual cups, each individual cup being configured to selectively hold at least one individual pill, the plurality of individual cups being circumferentially arranged around an outer perimeter of the pill plate, and the pill plate including a plurality of ratchet teeth interposed radially between the plurality of individual cups and the center of the pill plate, the pill plate selectively rotating within the pill plate housing;
• the pill plate housing including a cylindrical wall and an opening in the cylindrical wall that selectively aligns with a selected individual cup of the pill plate;
• the pill plate being interposed longitudinally between the pill plate housing and the outer cover;
• a locating groove extending around a bottom side of the outer cover concentric with an outermost edge of the bottom side, the locating groove selectively receiving a rim on the pill plate housing to engage the pill plate housing;
• rotational motion of the outer cover responsively rotating the pill plate via direct force-transmitting contact between the at least one protrusion on the bottom side of the outer cover and the at least one ratchet tooth in the pill plate;
• and the covering structure selectively stoppering the dispensing port.

A method of dispensing medication from a medication dispensing portable communication device case, comprising:

• removably holding at least a portion of a portable communication device in a device recess of a portable communication device case;
• selectively exposing a dispensing port associated with a dial medication storage portion;
• rotating an outer cover a first direction to responsively turn the dial medication storage portion, exposing an individual pill held by the dial medication storage portion;
• removing the individual pill from the dial medication storage portion from the exposed dispensing port;
• and selectively stoppering the dispensing port with a covering structure.