Patent ID: 9043015
Filing Date: 2015-05-26
Classification: A61J,G07F,G16H

Abstract:
1. A docking station for docking multiple smart medicine containers, each said smart medicine container having a control means, a memory, and a docking means, each said smart medicine container configured to store a bulk supply of pills and dispense one or more pills from the bulk supply under the control of the respective control means according to patient compliance data stored in the respective memory, the docking station comprising: a plurality of docking units each configured to engage the docking means of one respective said smart medicine container so as to dock the one respective said smart medicine container thereto; a centralized communication means configured to receive a first set of data from an external device on behalf of multiple said smart medicine containers each docked to one of the plurality of docking units; and a centralized docking control means configured to, for each of the multiple said smart medicine containers each docked to one of the plurality of docking units, access the respective memory of the one respective said smart medicine container through the respective docking unit to which the one respective said smart medicine container is docked, such that at least one subset of the received first set of data is stored in the respective memory of the one respective said smart medicine container.