Patent ID: 8648716
Filing Date: 2014-02-11
Classification: A61J,G06Q,G07F,G09B,G16H

Abstract:
1. A system for identifying medicine, and communicating dosage and intake instructions thereof to a patient via an RFID-enabled mobile device, said system comprising: (a) one or more RFID tags having a unique identifier associated therewith, the one or more RFID tags being adjacent to medicine and/or a medicine container, said medicine being in the form of pills and/or capsules; (b) an RFID-enabled mobile device comprising a computer processor, a wireless communications means, an RFID reader, a camera, and a non-transitory computer readable medium, all of which are in communication with one or more of each other; and (c) a subsystem operable to identify pills and capsules via optical recognition methods based on one or more of color, shape and size, associate one or more users with one or more pills and capsules, and transmit an audio file in the form of one or more of a ringtone, text message, one or more vibrations and/or a voice message associated with the unique identifier embodied on an RFID tag comprising identity of medicine and instructions related to medicine usage via a network to a RFID-enabled mobile device, said subsystem comprising computer application program code embodied on the non-transitory computer readable medium executable by the processor, said system for identifying medicine, and communicating dosage and intake instructions thereof to a patient via an RFID-enabled mobile device, said system comprising computer program code operable to: (i) generate, store and transmit a date stamp corresponding to the unique identifier when an RFID tag containing the unique identifier is read, and compare the date stamp to medicine dosage and intake instructions corresponding to the patient, so as to determine compliance therewith; (ii) receive an image of a sample pill or capsule from the camera and/or processor, generate a data set of optical characteristics of the pill or capsule based on the image, and compare the data set of optical characteristics of the sample pill or capsule to a database of known optical characteristics of known pills and capsules so as to determine identity of the sample pill or capsule; (iii) compare the identified sample pill or capsule, medicine dosage and intake instructions to patient medicine identity, dosage and intake requirements, so as to determine compliance therewith; (iv) cause a service to generate and play an audible and/or vibrational alarm so as to inform the user of the need to take the one or more medicines associated with the user, and record acknowledgement of the audible and/or vibrational alarm by the user, so as to determine compliance with medicine dosage and intake instructions; and (v) cause a service to play an audio and/or vibrational file on the RFID-enabled mobile device, said audio and/or vibrational file comprising identity of the sample pill or capsule, and instructions related to dosage and intake thereof.