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Systems, methods, and apparatuses for tracking status of time-sensitive articles

  • US 9,754,229 B2
  • Filed: 11/13/2015
  • Issued: 09/05/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/17/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A cueing device configured to alert a user to a perishable item associated with the cueing device based on one or more cueing parameters indicative of an urgency of the perishable item and a context for alerting the user to a status of the perishable item, the device comprising:

  • a visual output configured to provide multiple levels of visual alert;

    an input capable of receiving, from the user, an acknowledgement to an alert;

    one or more sensors configured to detect environmental characteristics affecting the perishable item and to determine a user identification by identifying a user having an associated profile associated therewith; and

    a wireless communication interface,wherein the visual alert is automatically programmed as a function of a type of the perishable item, feedback from at least one of the sensors, and historical information on user responses to prior alerts with respect to the type of the perishable item,and wherein the visual alert is adapted, based on the associated profile, to increase responsiveness to the visual alert by the identified user, the associated profile being updated based, at least in part, on monitored user responses to prior alerts.

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