Patent ID: 8195329

Claim:
A method of conducting a sales transaction for pharmacy filled prescription medications comprising: providing an automated dispensing device comprising a housing, a payment receiving terminal, and a plurality of storage locations, each storage location capable of storing a prescription medication that has been correlated to a specific consumer before being placed within the dispensing device; creating an information record comprising a consumer name, a prescription information element, and a medication information element; placing in the dispensing device a correlated prescription medication, which corresponds to the information record; accessing a pharmacy information system storing a plurality of information records; transferring the information record from the pharmacy information system to the automated dispensing device for the correlated prescription medication; after a consumer engages the dispensing device, accessing information received from a transferred record having a relation to that consumer; determining if a payment is required and receiving payment if required from the consumer at the payment receiving terminal for at least one correlated prescription medication; and delivering to the consumer a correlated prescription medication corresponding to the record.