SYSTEM, METHOD AND INTERFACE DISPLAY FOR VERIFYING AND MANAGING DISTRIBUTION AND SALES OF MEDICINE

• US 20110225100A1
• Filed: 12/20/2010
• Published: 09/15/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/12/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: PharmaSecure Incorporated
• Original Assignee: PharmaSecure Incorporated
• Inventors: Hine, Sarah M., Thompson, N. Taylor, Sangal, Puneet M., Sigworth, Nathan J.
• Application Number:
  US12/973,879
• Publication Number:
  US 20110225100A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/318
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/087 Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0185 Product, service or business identity fraud
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/10 relating to drugs or medications, e.g. for ensuring correct administration to patients

Abstract

A system, method and graphical user interface display for validating, monitoring and otherwise reviewing the sales and distribution of medicines, to reduce the instances of counterfeit medicines. A pharmaceutical company provides medicines to users, either directly or through representatives for the pharmaceutical company. The products have associated identifying codes that are used to track the sales of the products. The system provides verifications of the medicines, as well as statistical analysis of the sales and distribution. The verifications and comparisons of the distribution and sales of the medicines can be reviewed by the user or on a dashboard user interface. The system further allows pharmaceutical companies provided the medicines to provide response messages to users.

Claims

1. A system for validating sales of medicines comprising:

a verification server that receives code data regarding the sales of at least one medicine, transmitted over a network by a user seeking validity of the at least one medicine, and wherein the verification server transmits a verification message to the user;

a management server having an application running thereon that analyzes the validity of the at least one medicine based upon the code data transmitted by the user; and

a verification database in which codes corresponding to the sales of medicines are stored.

2. The system as set forth in claim 1 further comprising:

a dashboard interface display that provides a pharmaceutical company with feedback of the sales of medicines that they have distributed.

3. The system as set forth in claim 1 wherein the at least one medicine is stored in a container that includes the code data directly on an exterior surface thereof.

4. The system as set forth in claim 1 wherein the network comprises the internet.

5. The system as set forth in claim 1 wherein the network comprises a cellular telephone network.

6. The system as set forth in claim 1 wherein the verification message is transmitted to a user as one of a text message, a smartphone application and an internet-based message.

7. A method for validating sales of medicines comprising the steps of:

obtaining code data, transmitted to a verification server over a network, to validate at least one medicine; and

analyzing, by the verification server, the at least one medicine based upon information provided by the pharmaceutical provider of the at least one medicine.

8. The method as set forth in claim 7 further comprising the step of transmitting a verification message when the at least one medicine is validated by the verification server.

9. The method as set forth in claim 7 further comprising the step of submitting a request to a management server to perform a comparison of the sales of at least one of the plurality of medicines to at least another one of the plurality of medicines.

10. The method as set forth in claim 7 further comprising the step of performing statistical analysis on the sales of the plurality of medicines to obtain a comparison of the sales of the medicines.

11. The method as set forth in claim 7 further comprising the step of storing the code data into a verification database to provide a secondary source for the verification.

12. The method as set forth in claim 7 wherein the network comprises the internet.

13. The method as set forth in claim 7 wherein the network comprise a cellular telephone network and the message are transmitted as one of a text message, a smartphone application and an internet-based message.

14. The method as set forth in claim 7 wherein the code data is provided to the user as displayed on a container of the at least one medicine.

15. A graphical user interface display comprising:

a plurality of application-specific buttons for viewing a specified analysis of statistical data corresponding to sales of medicines;

a plurality of selector tabs for selecting particular parameters for which the analysis of statistical data occurs to view an effect of the particular parameters on the analysis of statistical data; and

a graphical display that provides of the analysis of statistical data performed on the sales of medicines, thereby providing feedback to one of a user of the medicines and a pharmaceutical company of the medicines.

16. The graphical user interface display of claim 15 wherein the particular parameters for which the statistical analysis will occur include one of a regional area, a product control and a date range.

17. A medicine container provided to a user, the medicine container comprising:

a verification code provided by a pharmaceutical company used in managing distribution and sales of a particular product to identify the particular product, the verification code adapted to be stored in a verification database for verification of distribution and sales of the particular product; and

wherein the verification code is adapted to be submitted by a user to a verification server to validate the particular product based upon the verification code provided to the verification server as compared to the verification code stored in the verification database.

18. The medicine container of claim 17 wherein the verification code is adapted to be transmitted to the verification server as one of a text message, a smartphone application message and an internet-based message.