Prescription reminder system and method

Patent 5623242 Issued on April 22, 1997. Estimated Expiration Date:

August 9, 2016. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventors

Assignee

Anteon Corporation

Application

No. 694832 filed on 08/09/1996

US Classes:

340/7.3, Queuing340/7.55, Display340/309.7, Reminder device with built-in timer368/10, COMBINED WITH DISPARATE DEVICE379/38Personal monitoring (e.g., for the ill or infirm)

Examiners

Primary: Hofsass, Jeffery
Assistant: Edwards, Timothy Jr.

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Meyer; Stuart P., Terrano; Mark C.

International Class

H04Q 001/30

Abstract

A prescription reminder system and method provides patients with paging devices, and uses a database of information about the patients and their prescriptions to generate reminder signals, based on which paging signals are transmitted to the paging devices, causing the paging devices to display reminder messages instructing each patient that it is time to take a dose of a prescribed medication.