| 摘要 |
An activity monitor which can be pre-programmed at the factory, the doctor's office or the pharmacist, or that can be programmed by the user. The activity monitor is affixed to a medicine bottle or container and activity associated with the bottle or container, such as movement, opening, volume changes, etc. are monitored in view to the schedule. If the schedule indicates that a dose of medicine should be taken at a particular time, but the monitored activity does not determine that the medicine has been taken, an alert signal will be issued to alert the user that it is time to take the medicine. In addition, if the monitored activity indicates that the medicine bottle has been opened prior to a scheduled time, then a tamper alert can be triggered. |
| 主权项 |
1. An apparatus that can be attached to a container to monitor activity associated with the container, the activity detector comprising:
a housing including at least one button accessible on the exterior of the housing and at least one indicator; an activity detector; a processing unit coupled to the at least one button, the at least one indicator, a memory device and the activity detector; and a schedule, created during a learning mode in which activity associated with the container is monitored, stored within the memory device, that includes data which defines at least one window of time during which activity associated with the container is permissible and at least one window of time during which activity associated with the container is not permissible.
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