Cuffless blood-pressure monitor and accompanying web services interface

• US 20050216199A1
• Filed: 03/26/2004
• Published: 09/29/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 03/26/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Triage Data Networks
• Original Assignee: Triage Data Networks
• Inventors: Banet, Matthew J.
• Application Number:
  US10/810,237
• Publication Number:
  US 20050216199A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 702/19
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/002 Monitoring the patient using a local or closed circuit, e.g. in a room or building A61B5/0017 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0022 Monitoring a patient using a global network, e.g. telephone networks, internet
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/021 Measuring pressure in heart or blood vessels A61B5/0205 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/02154 by optical transmission
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/681 Wristwatch-type devices
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

The invention provides a system for monitoring blood pressure that includes: 1) a gateway software system that receives blood pressure information collected with a blood-pressure monitor and transmitted with a wireless interface; 2) a database that receives the blood pressure information from the gateway software system and stores this information or derivatives thereof; and 3) a web services software interface that, in response to a request from a secondary software system, retrieves the blood pressure information or derivative thereof from the database.

Claims

1. A system for monitoring blood pressure comprising:

a gateway software system that receives blood pressure information collected with a blood-pressure monitor and transmitted with a wireless interface;

a database that receives the blood pressure information from the gateway software system and stores this information or derivatives thereof; and

a web services software interface that, in response to a request from a secondary software system, retrieves the blood pressure information or derivative thereof from the database.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the web services software interface further comprises computer code that processes messages comprising an application-independent format.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the application-independent format is an XML format.

4. The system of claim 2, wherein the application-independent format is a SOAP format.

5. The telematics system of claim 1, wherein the web services software interface comprises an RPC SOAP servlet.

6. The telematics system of claim 5, wherein the RPC SOAP servlet comprises computer code that processes a SOAP message sent from the secondary software system.

7. The telematics system of claim 6, wherein the RPC SOAP servlet further comprises computer code that extracts at least one parameter from the SOAP message.

8. The telematics system of claim 7, wherein the web services software interface is configured to pass the parameter to an enterprise Java bean.

9. The telematics system of claim 1, wherein the web services software interface further comprises at least one enterprise Java bean.

10. The telematics system of claim 9, wherein the enterprise Java bean comprises computer code that communicates with the database.

11. The telematics system of claim 10, wherein the enterprise Java bean further comprises computer code that extracts information from the database.

12. The telematics system of claim 11, wherein the enterprise Java bean is a stateless session bean.

13. The telematics system of claim 8, wherein the enterprise Java bean comprises computer code that processes a WSDL file.

14. The telematics system of claim 8, wherein the enterprise Java bean further comprises computer code that sends at least one parameter to a SOAP servlet.

15. The telematics system of claim 1, wherein the web services software interface further comprises computer code to send the blood pressure information to the secondary software system.

16. The telematics system of claim 15, wherein the web services software interface further comprises computer code to send an XML message comprising blood pressure information to the secondary software system.

17. The telematics system of claim 15, wherein the web services software interface further comprises computer code to send a SOAP message comprising blood pressure information to the secondary software system.

18. A telematics system comprising:

a gateway software system that receives blood pressure information transmitted wirelessly from a body-worn device;

a database that receives the blood pressure information from the gateway software system and stores this information or derivatives thereof; and

a web services software interface that, in response to a request from a secondary software system, retrieves the blood pressure information or derivative thereof from the database.