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Wearable cardioverter defibrillator (WCD) system using security NFC tag for requests of data from memory

US10946208B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

West Affum Holdings Corp. · KY

Inventors

Erik L. Schneider · Chemnitz, DE
Erick M. Roane · Bellevue, US
Dusan Beblavy · Košice, SK

Key dates

Filing date	Dec 5, 2018
Grant date	Mar 16, 2021
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Dec 5, 2038

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04L63/0492
WIPO fieldMedical technology
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A wearable cardioverter defibrillator (WCD) system includes a processor, a memory, a wireless communication module (DWCM), and an NFC tag that stores information for how an accessing device may access the DWCM wirelessly. An accessing device such as a defibrillator configurator with an NFC reader may read the NFC tag of the WCD system, if it has adequate permission to do so. Upon so reading, the accessing device will know how to address the DWCM wirelessly, and thus install or update configuration data, software updates, or request memory downloads from operations. The use of the NFC tag requires close proximity, which hampers both inadvertently programming the wrong WCD system, plus a WCD system being attacked maliciously.

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