System and method for communicating product recall information, product warnings or other product-related information to users of products

• US 8,473,313 B2
• Filed: 12/01/2009
• Issued: 06/25/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/11/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Geelux Holdings, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Geelux Holdings, Ltd.
• Inventors: Abreu, Marcio Marc
• Primary Examiner(s): Najarian, Lena
• Application Number:
  US12/591,779
• Publication Number:
  US 20100145730A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,302 Days
• Field of Search: 705 2- 3
• US Class Current: 705/3
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4848 Monitoring or testing the effects of treatment, e.g. of medication
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10861 sensing of data fields affixed to objects or articles, e.g. coded labels postal sorting B07C3/14, conveying articles B65G47/48
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/014 Providing recall services for goods or products
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/016 After-sales
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: Y02A 90/10 Information and communication technologies [ICT] supporting adaptation to climate change, e.g. for weather forecasting or climate simulation

Abstract

An automated system and method for communicating product information to consumers through a central computer using a distributed computer network. The system acquires and stores data including product identification data and consumer biological variables and, using a processor, determines if the data received interacts with products being stored in memory. Interactions that are determined include product-to-product interactions and biological variable-to-product interactions. The system is also configured to transmit information to a user about an alternative product to a harmful or recalled product.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method of transferring information between a user and a third party through a centralized computer having a prescription medications information database, said method comprising the steps of:

receiving, at the centralized computer, product identification information identifying a product from a user;

storing the product identification information in said product information database and establishing a link between said product and said user;

receiving, at the centralized computer, the user'"'"'s dynamically changing biological variables transmitted by the user from a remote location at different points in time, the biological variables being measured by health monitoring devices;

receiving, at the centralized computer, product update information on said product from a third party;

updating, by the centralized computer, said product information database with said product update information, wherein new information about the product is entered into the centralized computer;

reviewing, by the centralized computer, the product information database to identify user-product links associated with said product;

transmitting, on an automated basis, an electronic message containing said product update information of all users identified as having user-product links;

storing, in response to a user purchase of said product, product identification information for said product under a username;

receiving by the centralized computer, product update information on said product;

analyzing, by the centralized computer, interaction of the product with the biological variables from the user for potential harm indicated by the measured values of the biological variables and interaction with the product;

identifying, by said centralized computer, a point in time from the different points in time at which the dynamically changing biological variables cause a potentially harmful interaction with the product;

reviewing, by said centralized computer, the database for product identification information correlating with said product update information;

identifying the username as linked with the product; and

transmitting a message to said username with said product update information and a contraindication of use of the product based upon the measured biological variables at the point in time from the different points in time.

2. The method as set forth in claim 1, further comprising, before the second step of receiving, the steps of:

entering the product information into a remote terminal; and

electronically transmitting the product information to the centralized computer.

3. The method as set forth in claim 1, wherein product information is entered by scanning a bar code.

4. The method as set forth in claim 1, wherein currently used products include prescribed prescriptions.

5. The method as set forth in claim 1, further comprising the steps of:

reviewing by the centralized computer, the product information database for information relating to the product; and

notifying the user of any information relating to the product.

6. The method as set forth in claim 1, further comprising the steps of:

reviewing by the centralized computer, products taken by the user; and

notifying the user of any danger or complications regarding the simultaneous use of the products.