US 7,454,267 B2Granted

Medicament dispenser

AssigneeGlaxo Group Limited

InventorsStanley George Bonney, Anthony Patrick Jones, Duncan Robertson

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Abstract

A method of controlling the functioning of a portable medicament dispenser, said portable medicament dispenser being for use with a refill container, said method comprising: (a) providing a memory for storing one or more parameters relating to the functioning of said dispenser; (b) storing authentication data for authenticating data for controlling a function of said dispenser; (c) receiving control data for said dispenser; (d) performing authentication of the control data using said stored authentication data; (e) in dependence on a result of the authentication, activating one or more parameters in said memory to control functioning of said dispenser in accordance with said control data, characterized in that the step (d) of performing authentication of the control data is performed by said refill container.

Claims28

Dependent claims

A method of controlling the functioning of a portable medicament dispenser, said portable medicament dispenser being for use with a refill container which is insertable in said medicament dispenser in order to perform dispensing of medicament from said refill container, said method comprising:

(a) providing a memory for storing one or more parameters relating to the functioning of said dispenser;
(b) storing authentication data for authenticating data for controlling a function of said dispenser;
(c) receiving control data for said dispenser;
(d) performing authentication of the control data using said stored authentication data;
(e) in dependence on a result of the authentication, activating one or more parameters in said memory to control functioning of said dispenser in accordance with said control data,
wherein step (c) comprises receiving said control data in a refill container;
and
step (d) comprises performing authentication of the control data in said refill container,
and in that following said authentication, said control data is stored on said refill container, such that said control data can be transferred to said memory following insertion of said refill container into said dispenser.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 11/427,886Filed 30 Jun 2006 · continuation
Priority: GB 0108228.82 Apr 2001
Published: US 2006/0237002 A126 Oct 2006
Granted: 18 Nov 2008
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification21 codes

A61M 15/00
Inhalators
A61J 7/0418
With timers: with electronic history memory
A61J 7/0427
With timers: with direct interaction with a dispensing or delivery system
A61J 7/049
Working on a schedule basis: automatically changing in response to a schedule deviation by the patient

Family

PCT/GB02/01558Parent of this continuation · filed 2 Apr 2002
US 2006/0237002 A1Pre-grant publication · published 26 Oct 2006
Application10/473,902Parent of this continuation
US 7,072,738 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2004/0172162 A1Published application
US 7,454,267 B2This patent

From the US filing history. Foreign family members aren’t listed.