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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 06, 2010
Filed:
Nov. 27, 2001
Toshiaki Sasaki, Kanagawa, JP;
Sadayuki Sugama, Ibaraki, JP;
Takayoshi Tsutsumi, Tokyo, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A portable terminal carried and owned by each user is provided with a display screen, a communication unit, a memory storing personal information about each user, and an input/output device such as an inhaler. A database that communicates with each portable terminal is provided with a personal information storage unit storing the personal information about each user carrying the portable terminal, a medical information storage unit storing information about a medical facility, a drugstore, a medicine, and the input/output device, and a communication unit for communicating with each portable terminal. In the database, the user of the portable terminal is identified by collating the part of the information transmitted from the communication unit with information stored in the personal information storage unit. When a specific signal is transmitted from the communication unit, communication is performed with a medical facility while information, of the information stored in the medicine information storage unit, which is necessary for the user is provided for the portable terminal as an emergency measure. This makes it possible to properly and quickly handle an emergency.