Patent ID: 8485431

Claim:
A method for filling prescriptions in a customer order by processing a plurality of products in a first automated machine located within a pharmacy, each of the products containing a pharmaceutical and marked with a machine-readable marking containing information relating to the pharmaceutical, and each of the products free of markings relating to the prescriptions prior to loading into the first automated machine, the method comprising: using a second automated machine located inside the pharmacy to fill at least some of the products with the respective pharmaceutical and thereby produce at least some of the products; loading the products to be used to fill the customer order into the first automated machine; operating the first automated machine to read the machine-readable marking on each of the products loaded into the first automated machine; and in response to reading the machine-readable marking on each of the products, labeling at least some of the products in the first automated machine with information relating to a respective one of the prescriptions in the customer order.