US 6,909,359 Claim Chart
US 6,909,359 (McGovern)
1. A medical alerting system
comprising
1.a. a connectivity server
including a digital computer,
1.b. a supervisory computer
program continuously running on
the connectivity server,
1.c. a medication database in
machine-readable form stored in
computer memory accessible in
real-time by the supervisory
computer program and
comprising medical records for
patients each of whom has a
unique patient identifier, and
which medical records comprise
regimens for administration of
one or more medications or
therapies prescribed for the
patients,
1.d. a wide area network
subsystem adapted to wirelessly
transmit into a preselected
geographic area real-time alerting
signals of electromagnetic
radiation corresponding to
1
Citations are to US 5,872,505 unless otherwise noted.
US 5,872,505 (Wicks) in view of JP 2003/016185 and
US 5,950,6321
Discloses “[a] novel pager and paging System assist a
patient with treatment reminders.” See Abstract.
Discloses a “central processor” corresponding to a
“connectivity server.”
“The paging system 10 is provided with a central
processor” See 3:41.
“[A] program . . . constituting an operation mechanism
such as CGI (Common Gateway Interface), for example, is
stored in the storage unit of the web server 110, and the
control unit executes this program." See JP 2003/016185
(“Enomoto”) at [0026].
"The control unit of the management server 120 is
constituted by, for example, a CPU [. . .], and executes a
predetermined operation program stored in the storage
unit, thereby controlling each unit of the management
server 120." Enomoto at [0027].
Discloses a “medication database” that is “stored in
computer memory accessible in real-time” and
“comprising medical records [with a] unique patent
identifier, and [. . .] regimens for administration [of the
patient’s medication].”
"[A] database 45 of prescription and appointment
information for patients who have Subscribed to the paging
System's treatment reminder Service. " See 3:42-44.
"[W]hen someone 12 wishes to page a particular user, they
contact the user's service provider 11, identify the user to
be paged (perhaps with a personal identification number),
and may give a message to the service provider 11 that is
to be broadcast to the user's pager 15." See 1:21-25
(emphasis added).
Discloses using a wide area network subsystem:
The message “transmitted via base station 43, is received
by pager 40." See 4:15-16.
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directive signals provided from
time-to-time by the connectivity
server, and
1.e. a plurality of portable
receivers assigned uniquely to
individual patients and operative
to receive the alerting signals in
real-time, each receiver
comprising (a) an electronic filter
adapted to selectively accept
alerting signals directed to only
the one individual patient
assigned to the receiver, (b) a
visual display unit, and (c) an
interpreter system operative to
provide to the visual display unit
a human-readable message which
corresponds to an alert signal
1.f. in which the supervisory
computer program is operative to
use the medical records obtained
from the medication database to
generate directive signals
corresponding to events in the
regimens of respective patients,
and
1.g. in which the interpreter
system comprises a standardized
database of pre-programmed
messages pertinent to regimens
for administration of medications
or therapies, and in which the
interpreter system is operative to
select one or more messages to be
displayed in response to receipt
by the receiver of corresponding
alerting signals.
Discloses an electronic filter, a visual display, and an
interpreter system that are used in the system to receive
and display the paging message.
"The pager 40 includes a display 24, a controller 41 and an
antenna 42." See 3:37-39.
"[T]he controller 41 receives transmissions from the
paging system 10 via antenna 42 and drives display 24."
See 3:39-41.
Discloses using the medical records to generate directive
signals:
"The central processor 46 of the paging System 10
monitors the patient information database 45. At
appropriate times, the processor 46 will transmit a
treatment reminder" See 3:65-67.
"The processor accesses the treatment database and
transmits data to a pager based on the information in the
database." See 2:28-30.
Discloses the use of pre-programmed messages:
"[T]he graphical representation and the dosage can be
included in the paging message received by the receiver
54. Alternatively, the graphical representation and/or the
dosage can be locally stored in a storage medium 66.[. . .]
As another alternative, the graphical representation is
hardwired into the display device 56. Here, for example,
each of a plurality of predetermined graphical images is
patterned into the display device as a respective display
element. Each of the predetermined graphical images is
independently activated and deactivated in response to the
paging message." See US 5,950,632 (“Reber”) at 5:18-30.
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