Patent ID: 8275481

Claim:
A bottle transfer system for transferring one or more bottles, comprising: a plurality of storage receptacles; a transport mechanism to transport one or more bottles to one of the plurality of storage receptacles, the one or more bottles being stored by the one of the plurality of storage receptacles; a computer system to receive a patient specific order, the patient specific order including the one or more bottles, identify and determine one or more storage receptacles among the plurality of storage receptacles, the transport mechanism to transfer the one or more bottles corresponding to the patient specific order to the one or more storage receptacles, and control transfer of the one or more bottles from at least one of the plurality of storage receptacles when the one or more bottles are ready for dispensing with other components of the patient specific order, the other components including an additional bottle, patient specific literature corresponding to the patient specific order, or both the additional bottle and the patient specific literature; and a bottle dispenser including a bottle buffer to receive the one or more bottles associated with the patient specific order, wherein the bottle buffer is disposed and configured to release the received one or more bottles.