Patents by Inventor Michael T. Portwood

Michael T. Portwood has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20040205706
    Abstract: A method for developing an application for interacting with one or more external objects where a Workbench program receives the initial instructions from the software developer and queries the external objects which are to interact with the application to obtain sufficient information to interact with the external objects. A Built Project is produced by the Workbench which contains a series of instructions for a Runtime program to produce an application which interacts with the external objects. The Runtime takes the Built Project and using a runtime environment such as the JRE, builds the desired application. The purpose of the Runtime is to reproduce the user interface that was designed using the Workbench and connect that user interface to the specified external objects. Once it performs this function, the Runtime's job is done. The end user only directly interacts with the Built Project and the resulting application, not the Workbench nor the Runtime.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2001
    Publication date: October 14, 2004
    Inventor: Michael T. Portwood
  • Patent number: 6305377
    Abstract: A system and method for improving compliance by a patient with a medical regimen that has been prescribed to the patient wherein utilizing computer and electronic communication systems, patient data is compared to pharmaceutical data to verify prescribed drug dosage and prescribed medication duration are within acceptable limits, any abnormalities found by the comparisons are reported to the treating physician who may then alter the medical regimen before authorizing dispensing of the prescribed drugs and providing drug taking information to the patient, and upon authorization being issued, the patient is scheduled to receive reminder notifications prior to the prescribed time for the prescribed drugs to be administered, as well as automatically notifying the prescription distribution service to deliver the prescribed drugs to the patient, and notifying the payor service to pay for the prescribed drugs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2001
    Inventors: Michael T. Portwood, John W. Portwood
  • Patent number: 5950630
    Abstract: A system and method for improving compliance by a patient with a medical regimen that has been prescribed to the patient wherein utilizing computer and electronic communication systems, patient data is compared to pharmaceutical data to verify prescribed drug dosage and prescribed medication duration are within acceptable limits, any abnormalities found by the comparisons are reported to the treating physician who may then alter the medical regimen before authorizing dispensing of the prescribed drugs and providing drug taking information to the patient, and upon authorization being issued, the patient is scheduled to receive reminder notifications prior to the prescribed time for the prescribed drugs to be administered, as well as automatically notifying the prescription distribution service to deliver the prescribed drugs to the patient, and notifying the payor service to pay for the prescribed drugs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1999
    Inventors: Michael T. Portwood, John W. Portwood