METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OUTPUTTING A RESULT OF A GAME VIA A CONTAINER

• US 20060234793A1
• Filed: 06/14/2006
• Published: 10/19/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 11/22/1995
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: James Jorasch
• Original Assignee: James Jorasch
• Inventors: Jorasch, James A., Tedesco, Robert C., Walker, Jay S., Packes, John M. Jr.
• Granted Patent: US 8,556,728 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/20
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 7/04 Arrangements for time indication or reminder for taking medicine, e.g. programmed dispensers
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/32 for games, toys, sports, or amusements
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3218 wherein at least part of the system is portable
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 7/06 by returnable containers , i.e. reverse vending systems in which a user is rewarded for returning a container that serves as a token of value, e.g. bottles
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/13 delivered from dispensers
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2209/56 Financial cryptography, e.g. electronic payment or e-cash
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2209/805 Lightweight hardware, e.g. radio-frequency identification [RFID] or sensor
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/3297 involving time stamps, e.g. generation of time stamps

Abstract

A method and apparatus is disclosed that documents and authenticates cap removal data. According to a first aspect of the present invention, the apparatus measures a parameter indicative of the number of times that a cap has been removed by a user. The apparatus also encodes at least the parameter indicative of the cap removal data, thereby deriving encoded cap removal data. The apparatus outputs the encoded cap removal data to a user. According to a second aspect of the present invention, another apparatus receives the encoded cap removal data and decodes it to authenticate the cap removal data. According to a third aspect of the present invention, a medicine container is operable to output a result of a game based on cap removal data associated with the medicine container.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

determining that a cap removal requirement of a container has been satisfied; and

causing, in response to the determination, a result of a game to be displayed via the container.

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