Meter having post-meal test-time alarm

• US 10,223,893 B2
• Filed: 07/14/2016
• Issued: 03/05/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 08/05/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ascensia Diabetes Care Holdings AG (PHC Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Ascensia Diabetes Care Holdings AG (PHC Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Power, Barry D., Culver, Jeffrey A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Nagpaul, Jyoti
• Application Number:
  US15/210,307
• Publication Number:
  US 20160321419A1
• Time in Patent Office: 964 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14532 for measuring glucose, e.g. by tissue impedance measurement
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14546 for measuring analytes not otherwise provided for, e.g. ions, cytochromes
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7475 User input or interface means, e.g. keyboard, pointing device, joystick
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/24 Reminder alarms, e.g. anti-loss alarms
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/10 relating to drugs or medications, e.g. for ensuring correct administration to patients
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation

Abstract

A method for using a meter and a meter (10) adapted to determine an analyte concentration reading, the meter comprising a display (12) adapted to display information to a user of the meter, the display including information directed to a post-meal test-time alarm (22″) that is adapted to remind the user to obtain a post-meal analyte concentration reading, and at least one user input mechanism (15) adapted to allow the user to activate the post-meal test-time alarm.

Claims

1. A method for using a meter adapted to determine an analyte concentration reading, the meter having a display adapted to display information to a user, the method comprising:

displaying the analyte concentration reading on the display;

displaying an icon representing a pre-meal marker on the display;

in response to a selection of the icon representing a pre-meal marker being received by the meter to mark that the analyte concentration displayed on the display is a pre-meal analyte concentration, displaying an icon representing a post-meal test-time alarm on the display;

in response to a selection of the icon representing a post-meal test-time alarm,

automatically activating the post-meal test-time alarm after a predetermined amount of time to remind the user to obtain a post-meal analyte concentration reading, the predetermined amount of time being predetermined by the meter.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising storing the post-meal analyte concentration reading.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the analyte is glucose.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined amount of time is about 1 ½

to about 2 ½

hours from the selection of the icon representing a pre-meal marker.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein the activating of the post-meal test-time alarm occurs about two hours after a meal.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the icon representing a pre-meal marker is a food icon.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the food icon is an apple.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the icon representing a post-meal test-time alarm is a clock icon.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving, via a user input mechanism, a selection of the icon representing a pre-meal marker to mark the analyte concentration as a pre-meal analyte concentration.

10. A method for using a meter adapted to determine an analyte concentration reading, the meter having a display adapted to display information to a user, the method comprising:

displaying the analyte concentration reading on the display;

displaying an icon representing a pre-meal marker on the display;

identifying the analyte concentration as a pre-meal analyte concentration reading via selection of the icon representing a pre-meal marker;

in response to the identification of the pre-meal analyte concentration reading, displaying an icon representing a post-meal test-time alarm on the display; and

in response to a selection of the icon representing a post-meal test-time alarm, activating the post-meal test-time alarm after a predetermined amount of time set by the meter to remind the user to obtain a post-meal analyte concentration reading.

11. The method according to claim 10, further comprising storing the pre-meal analyte concentration reading and the post-meal analyte concentration reading in a memory device of the meter.

12. The method according to claim 10, wherein the analyte is glucose.

13. The method according to claim 10, wherein the predetermined amount of time is about 1 ½

to about 2 ½

hours from the selection of the pre-meal marker.

14. The method according to claim 13, wherein the activating the post-meal test-time alarm occurs about two hours after a meal.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein the icon representing a pre-meal marker is a food icon.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the food icon is an apple.

17. The method of claim 10, wherein the icon representing a post-meal test-time alarm is a clock icon.