Handheld diabetes manager with automated disconnect feature

US8929823B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Mark Gilmore Mears · Zionsville, US
• Mark Nierzwick · Brownsburg, US
• Phillip E. Pash · Indianapolis, US
• Vincent R. Rizzo · Indianapolis, US
• Bettina Steiner · Indianapolis, US
• Kristin M. Westerfield · Indianapolis, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 5, 2012
• Grant date: Jan 6, 2015
• Expiry date: Aug 1, 2033

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04W84/20
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A computer-implemented method is provided for a handheld diabetes-management device to establish a data connection with a Continua manager. The method includes: receiving a request to establish a new data connection with a computing device, where the computing device is physically separated from the diabetes-management device and operates as a manager in accordance with IEEE standard 11073; determining whether the diabetes-management device has an existing data connection with a medical device that is physically separated from the diabetes-management device; terminating the existing data connection with the medical device in response to the determination that the diabetes-management device has an existing connection with the medical device; and establishing a new data connection with the computing device in accordance with IEEE standard 11073.