PERSONAL ACCESSORY FOR USE WITH A PILL
First Claim
1. A pill (101) comprising:
- a wireless transceiver (102);
at least one device (205) adapted to deliver a substance and/or service; and
at least one processor (204) adapted to perform operations, the operations comprising;
seeking an accessory for initiating (702) secured communication; and
refraining or blocking (704) delivery of the substance and/or service if the accessory is not found.
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Abstract
A wearable accessory controls (103) and provides security for a pill delivering medical substances and services. An initialization procedure allows decryption information (814) to be loaded into the accessory for each pill and/or decryption information (818) about the accessory to be loaded into the pill. The pill preferably sends encrypted messages to the accessory and the accessory preferably sends encrypted messages to the pill. The pill operates only when the proximity of the accessory is verified or authenticated during the operation of the pill, preferably at frequent intervals. Where the pill is no longer useful, its information can be deleted (1205) from memory in the accessory or other controlling device.
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15 Claims
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1. A pill (101) comprising:
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a wireless transceiver (102); at least one device (205) adapted to deliver a substance and/or service; and at least one processor (204) adapted to perform operations, the operations comprising; seeking an accessory for initiating (702) secured communication; and refraining or blocking (704) delivery of the substance and/or service if the accessory is not found.
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2. A medical security device comprising:
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at least one wearable accessory (103, 105) the accessory comprising; at least one wireless transceiver (104); at least one memory device (302) for storing data and/or executable code; and at least one processor (301, 303) adapted to execute operations including sending at least one message to at least one pill (101) via the wireless transceiver; and
/orreceiving at least one message from the at least one pill (101) via the wireless transceiver. - View Dependent Claims (3, 4)
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5. A system comprising:
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at least one ingestible pill resident in the alimentary tract of a human body (100); and at least one wearable accessory, the accessory comprising at least one wireless transceiver (104), at least one memory device (302) for storing data and/or executable code, and at least one processor (301, 303) adapted to execute operations including establishing secure communication with at least one pill (101) for enabling pill functionality, and monitoring or controlling the pill via encrypted messaging. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A method comprising executing the following operations in a medical security system:
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maintaining a close proximity between at least one wearable accessory (103) and a human body (100); passing at least one pill (101) through the alimentary tract of the body (100); performing a security related operation (703), to verify identity of either the wearable accessory to the pill, or to verify identity of the pill to the wearable accessory, or to verify the identity of the pill and the wearable accessory to each other.
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14. A medium readable by a data processing device and embodying executable code for causing the device to perform operations, the operations including:
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receiving information (821, 813) regarding at least one pill (809) and at least one wearable accessory (808); establishing communication with the pill and/or the wearable accessory; and programming either the wearable accessory or the pill or both with information (818, 814) about the other.
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15. An apparatus (103) comprising:
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at least one wireless transceiver; at least one storage device embodying data and/or executable code in a machine readable form; at least one processor adapted to perform operations, the operations comprising; maintaining identifying information (1201) about at least one pill; sending and/or receiving information (1202) relating to delivery of at least one service and/or substance to and/or from the pill, while the pill is in a human body; determining (1204) that further communication with the pill is no longer useful; and deleting (1205) the identifying information about the at least one pill that is no longer useful.
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Specification