Patent ID: 8069056

Claim:
A compliance monitoring device comprising: a housing configured to removably accommodate a plurality of medicine containers, each of said medicine containers being adapted to wirelessly communicate, between a first medicine container and a second medicine container, distance data corresponding to a distance between the first medicine container the second medicine container; a transceiver coupled to the housing for wireless communication with the plurality of medicine containers; a processor in communication with the transceiver; and a data storage device associated with the processor, the data storage device storing at least one program for directing the processor to: wirelessly communicate with each of the medicine containers; monitor removal of each of the plurality of medicine containers from the compliance monitoring device; monitor the return of each medicine container to the compliance monitoring device; store container data in the data storage device that comprises at least one of communications data, removal data and return data associated with each medicine container; and determine patient compliance with at least one schedule for taking medicine based on the container data.