UNIVERSAL ADAPTER FOR PERSONAL HEALTH DEVICE STANDARDIZATION OF NON-STANDARDIZED HEALTHCARE DEVICE AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF

• US 20110077910A1
• Filed: 09/28/2010
• Published: 03/31/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: Park, Chan Yong, Park, Soo Jun, LIM, Joon Ho, Park, Seon Hee
• Granted Patent: US 8,467,995 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 702/188
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16Z 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other main groups of this subclass

Abstract

Disclosed are a universal adapter for the personal health device (PHD) standardization of a non-standardized healthcare device and an operating method thereof. The universal adapter includes: an adapter interface device communicating with a non-standardized healthcare device, which does not follow PHD standardization, to collect measurement data measured by the non-standardized healthcare device; and a universal adapter device receiving the measurement data from the adapter interface device, generating a PHD standard message including the received measurement data, and transmitting the PHD standard message to a PHD gateway according to a PHD standard communication scheme.

Claims

1. A universal adapter for the personal health device (PHD) standardization of a non-standardized healthcare device, the adapter comprising:

an adapter interface device communicating with a non-standardized healthcare device, which does not follow PHD standardization, to collect measurement data measured by the non-standardized healthcare device; and

a universal adapter device receiving the measurement data from the adapter interface device, generating a PHD standard message including the received measurement data, and transmitting the PHD standard message to a PHD gateway according to a PHD standard communication scheme.

2. The universal adapter of claim 1, wherein the adapter interface device comprises:

a healthcare device interface module receiving the measurement data from the non-standardized healthcare device;

a communication module receiving the measurement data from the healthcare device interface module and transmitting the received measurement data to the universal adapter device; and

a control module controlling operations of the healthcare device interface module and the communication module.

3. The universal adapter of claim 2, wherein the communication module performs communication according to an adapter protocol previously defined for communications between the adapter interface device and the universal adapter device.

4. The universal adapter of claim 3, wherein the adapter protocol performs communication through a message of a predetermined size including a type of the non-standardized healthcare device, a type of the measurement data, the measurement data, and data measurement time information.

5. The universal adapter of claim 1, wherein the universal adapter device comprises:

an adapter interface communication module receiving the measurement data from the adapter interface device;

a PHD standard communication module generating a PHD standard message including the measurement data received from the adapter interface communication module, and transmitting the PHD standard message to the PHD gateway according to the PHD standard communication scheme; and

a control module controlling operations of the adapter interface communication module and the PHD standard communication module.

6. The universal adapter of claim 5, wherein the adapter interface communication module performs communication according to an adapter protocol previously defined for communications between the adapter interface device and the universal adapter device.

7. The universal adapter of claim 5, wherein the PHD standard communication module generates the PHD standard message by using a PHD message template.

8. The universal adapter of claim 7, wherein the PHD message template is generated by using the information regarding the type of the non-standardized healthcare device and the type of the measurement data.

9. The universal adapter of claim 7, wherein the PHD standard communication module generates the PHD standard message by merging the measurement data which has been transferred from the adapter interface communication module with the PHD message template.

10. A method for operating a universal adapter, including an adapter interface device and an universal adapter device, for personal health device (PHD) standardization of a non-standardized healthcare device, the method comprising:

receiving, by the universal adapter device, measurement data measured by a non-standardized healthcare device from the adapter interface device;

generating a PHD standard message including the measurement data; and

transmitting the measurement data to a PHD gateway through the generated PHD standard message according to a PHD standard communication scheme.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein, in generating the PHD standard message, the PHD standard message is generated by merging the measurement data and a PHD message template.