Appeal No. 2005-2220
Application No. 09/335,189
THE INVENTION
The invention relates to a system for preparing and printing out of drug
information. See page 1 appellants’ specification. In the system, drugs are
prepared to dispense to patients at plural stations. Each station has different
types of drugs and each station has a printer, to print out instructions related to
the drug. The system is programmed such that the printer at a station only prints
out instructions related to the drugs at that station. See pages 2 and 3 of
appellants’ specification.
Claim 26 is representative of the invention and is reproduced below:
26. A drug preparation order system for use with a drug
preparation order sheet, said system comprising:
a control unit for carrying out logic operations and outputting control
signals;
a display device connected to said control unit; and
a plurality of printers connected to said control unit,
said control unit comprising:
a memory for storing a plurality of printer codes each corresponding
to one of said plurality of printers, a plurality of drug type codes, and a
printer setting file defining a correlation between the drug type codes and
the printer codes;
an input device through which external data can be entered into
said memory, said external data comprising a plurality of sets of data,
each set comprising drug data;
correlating means for correlating each of the plurality of sets of data
with one of the drug type codes;
display means for displaying said correlation between the drug type
codes and the printer codes on said display device;
altering means for altering said correlation in response to a signal
entered through said input device; and
printer activating means for, in response to a command to print one
of the plurality of sets of data, activating one of said printers that
corresponds to one of the printer codes corresponding, in accordance with
said printer setting file, to one of said drug type codes which is correlated
by said correlating means with said one of the plurality of sets of data to
print said one of the plurality of sets of data on a drug preparation sheet.
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