Method and system for storing and preparing data using a data memory card

• US 6,082,622 A
• Filed: 11/27/1996
• Issued: 07/04/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 06/03/1994
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Bayer AG
• Original Assignee: Bayer AG
• Inventors: Weikert, Gunnar, Hartmann, Georg
• Primary Examiner(s): Hajec, Donald
• Assistant Examiner(s): Dunn, Drew A.
• Application Number:
  US08/757,410
• Time in Patent Office: 1,315 Days
• Field of Search: 235/492, 235/487, 235/375, 235/380, 235/382
• US Class Current: 235/492
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/00 Record carriers for use with machines and with at least a part designed to carry digital markings
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/65 stored on portable record carriers, e.g. on smartcards, RFID tags or CD

Abstract

A system and method of storing and preparing data uses at least one data memory card having at least one electronic memory chip and a separate optical memory. At frequent intervals alphanumeric data is entered into the at least one electronic memory chip. At less frequent intervals, image data is entered into the optical memory, data is read from the at least one electronic memory chip and data is transferred from the at least one electronic memory chip into the optical memory.

Claims

1. A method of storing and preparing data comprising the steps of:

providing at least one data memory card having at least one electronic memory chip and a separate digital optical memory;

at frequent intervals entering alphanumeric data into the at least one electronic memory chip; and

at less frequent intervals entering digital data representative of an image into the digital optical memory, reading data from the at least one electronic memory chip and transferring data from the at least one electronic memory chip as digital data into the digital optical memory.

2. The method according to claim 1, for storing and preparing data relating to a chronic health disorder, wherein test data relating to the disorder is entered into the at least one electronic memory chip at least once per day and image data and stored test data in the at least one memory chip is entered into the optical memory no more than twice a year.

3. A system for storing and preparing data comprising:

at least one data memory card having at least one electronic memory chip and a separate digital optical memory;

a device for entering alphanumeric data into the at least one electronic memory chip at frequent intervals; and

a device for entering digital data representative of an image into the digital optical memory, reading data from the at least one electronic memory chip and transferring data from the at least one electronic memory chip as digital data into the digital optical memory at less frequent intervals.

4. The system according to claim 3, wherein the device for entering alphanumeric data into the at least one electronic memory chip at frequent intervals is compact and portable.