MICHAEL A SMITH, M.D.
Osteopathic Medicine at 7 Ave, Seattle, WA

2002009, Jul 18, 2002

Dec 29, 2000

09/753315

Arnold Ahlin - , US
Marilynn Ahlin - , US
John Wilson - Bothell WA, US
Ronald Wilson - Bothell WA, US
Michael Smith - Seattle WA, US

G06F019/00

700/243000, 700/225000

The system for automatically dispensing medications or other medical elements includes several groupings, i.e. vaults, of storage members, each vault containing approximately 100 individual cartridges, which each contain packages of unit-of-use doses of a given medication or other medical supply, such as syringes. Each storage member includes an ejector which ejects selected medications/supplies to a supply trough. The packages in the trough are moved to a central collator, which dispenses them to a bin receptacle which has been moved underneath the collator and which is typically identified with a particular patient. Information concerning medications/supplies for a particular patient is stored in a system database and used to determine the particular medications/supplies dispensed into a given bin. Bar coding is used to maintain control over the bins, and the medications, forming a closed information/control system. Particular medications and/or supplies which are not available in the automatic dispensing system are supplied from a supplemental medications cart which has been previously stocked with the correct additional medications by virtue of information from a control computer. The filled bins are transferred to a medication cart which can only be accessed as a result of a command signal after a particular patient and his/her associated bin have been matched. A nurse, having access to the correct bin and sector thereof, removes the medications from the cart and administers them to the patient.

2009011, Apr 30, 2009

Oct 25, 2007

11/924051

Johnny S. Campbell - Renton WA, US
Joseph M. Chirilov - Redmond WA, US
Michael H. Smith - Seattle WA, US
Robert G. Hawking - Seattle WA, US
Rishabh Tandon - Sammamish WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 15/16

709205

Techniques for performing a process during a real time collaboration by multiple users or clients on a spreadsheet file are disclosed herein which may permit calculations to be performed locally by at least one of the clients. By doing so, increases in performance are realized since only data updates need to be provided to the host machine. As such, a determination is preferably made whether calculations performed locally can result in different data. If conflicting data is a possibility, then the calculations for the spreadsheet file will usually be performed remotely by a host machine. If not, then each client capable of doing so will perform the calculations locally and then provide only the updated data to the host machine. The determination of whether to perform the calculations locally or not may also be made dynamically, such as when one or more new formulas are added to the spreadsheet file.