Patent ID: 6738690
Filing Date: 2004-05-18
Classification: G07F

Abstract:
An information management system applied to a supply flow of dispensed objects, the system comprising:a. a portable dispensing case loadable with objects at a loading site and transportable to a dispensing site where the objects are dispensed from the portable case; b. the portable case containing microcircuitry and a communication connection that connects the microcircuitry to a reload controller at the loading site and to a dispensing controller at the dispensing site; c. the reload controller communicating to the microcircuitry loading information involving identities and locations of objects loaded into the case for dispensing; d. the loading information traveling with the microcircuitry in the portable case from the loading site to the dispensing site and being used in response to dispensing requests from the dispensing controller to dispense objects at the dispensing site; e. the dispensing controller communicating to the microcircuitry in the portable case transactional information involving dispensing of the objects at the dispensing site; and f. the transactional information traveling with the microcircuitry in the portable case from the dispensing site to the loading site where the transactional information is downloadable from the microcircuitry.