Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Health care management
Reexamination Certificate
2010-06-07
2010-12-28
O'Connor, Gerald J. (Department: 3686)
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Health care management
Reexamination Certificate
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ABSTRACT:
The system distributes workload amongst a plurality of pharmacy resources that are connected by a computer network. Work orders are queued at each pharmacy resource and redistributed based on existing workload distribution, capacity of pharmacy resources, and/or product demand.
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Goodall Charles
Jhaveri Nimesh
Wielgos Russell Alan
Kowalik Francis C.
Marshall & Gerstein & Borun LLP
O'Connor Gerald J.
Pauls John A
Walgreen Co.
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