US 12,437,854 B1
System and method for virtual review of a pharmaceutical product filling process
Nimesh S. Jhaveri, Kildeer, IL (US); Laura Jean Tebbe, Antioch, IL (US); Dejan Kozic, Wadsworth, IL (US); and Fuli E, Mundelein, IL (US)
Assigned to WALGREEN CO., Deerfield, IL (US)
Filed by WALGREEN CO., Deerfield, IL (US)
Filed on Jan. 10, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/095,304.
Application 18/095,304 is a continuation of application No. 16/657,464, filed on Oct. 18, 2019, granted, now 11,581,079.
Application 16/657,464 is a continuation of application No. 13/443,302, filed on Apr. 10, 2012, abandoned.
Int. Cl. G16H 20/13 (2018.01); G05B 15/02 (2006.01)
CPC G16H 20/13 (2018.01) [G05B 15/02 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image based and network controlled, security system configured to securely dispense pharmaceutical products onsite at a physical location, the image based and network controlled, security system comprising:
a pharmaceutical product imaging device positioned within a physically secured pharmacy area, the pharmaceutical product imaging device configured to capture a plurality of images of pharmaceutical products from multiple viewpoints;
a server communicatively coupled, through a computer network, to the pharmaceutical product imaging device, the server configured to store an account of a user; and
a visualization user interface application configured to execute on a network computer positioned outside the physically secured pharmacy area, the network computer communicatively coupled, via a computer network, to the server,
wherein the server is configured to:
receive, via the computer network, a scanned digital prescription image corresponding to a prescription of the user,
determine, by a software program reading the scanned digital prescription image, a pharmaceutical product and a pharmaceutical product amount of the pharmaceutical product,
receive, from the pharmaceutical product imaging device, a plurality of digital images of the pharmaceutical product comprising at least one unacceptable image of the pharmaceutical product, the plurality of digital images captured at multiple viewpoints depicting features in the digital images of the pharmaceutical product;
transmit, to the visualization user interface application executing on the network computer positioned outside the physically secured pharmacy area, a visual confirmation of the pharmaceutical product and the pharmaceutical product amount, the visual confirmation based on the one or more digital images of the pharmaceutical product comprising at least one unacceptable image,
receive, from the visualization user interface application, a rejection of the visual confirmation based on the at least one unacceptable image, and
implement one of:
(a) rejecting, based on the at least one unacceptable image, the scanned digital prescription image, causing rescanning of the prescription and a return of the pharmaceutical product to a pharmaceutical product stock within the physically secured pharmacy area; or
(b) dispensing, upon receiving an acceptable image replacing the unacceptable image, by a dispensing instrument the product for outside of the physically secured pharmacy area.