Patent ID: 7124791

Claim:
A medicament dispensing system comprising: a) a plurality of tablet dispensing subsystems, each including a plurality of storage containers for storing tablets, a feed channel network that is adapted to fill said storage containers with tablets, a discharge port, and discharge means for selectively emptying said plurality of storage chambers for supply to said discharge port; and b) a plurality of controllers corresponding to said plurality of tablet dispensing subsystems, wherein each controller executes a dispensing routine and a fill routine, said dispensing routine cooperating with said discharge means to supply a number of tablets from said storage compartments to said discharge port in accordance with a tablet quantity encoded in a dispense request command supplied thereto, said fill routine cooperating with the feed channel network of the corresponding tablet counting and dispensing subsystem to fill at least one storage container emptied as a result of said dispensing routine, wherein said fill routine operates independently of the tablet quantity encoded in the dispense request command.