User profile backup system for an infusion pump device

• US 8,032,226 B2
• Filed: 09/07/2007
• Issued: 10/04/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/07/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Insulet Corporation, M2 Medical Group Holdings, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Asante Solutions, Inc
• Inventors: Sadler, John W., Miller, Steve
• Primary Examiner(s): Stigell; Theodore
• Assistant Examiner(s): OSINSKI, BRADLEY JAMES
• Application Number:
  US11/851,989
• Publication Number:
  US 20090069785A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,488 Days
• Field of Search: 604/890.1, 604/891.1, 604/151, 222/325, 607/59
• US Class Current: 607/59
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2005/14268 with a reusable and a disposable component
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2005/31518 designed to reduce the overall size of an injection device, e.g. using flexible or pivotally connected chain-like rod members
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/16 with back-up system in case of failure
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/52 with memories providing a history of measured variating parameters of apparatus or patient
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/14244 adapted to be carried by the patient, e.g. portable on the body
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/14566 with a replaceable reservoir for receiving a piston rod of the pump
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/172 electrical or electronic A61M5/16804, A61M5/16831 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/17 delivered via infusion or injection
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/60 for the operation of medical equipment or devices

Abstract

Some embodiments of an infusion pump system can include a controller device that communicates with a pump device, the pump device having a memory device. The controller device can be configured to record controller-related data, such as user profile data on the memory device of the pump device. This user profile data that is stored in the memory of the pump device can serves as a data backup system that permits the user to program a new controller device in a situation where the original controller device is lost or damaged. In addition or in the alternative, the controller device can be configured to receive controller-related data, such as software update programs or backup controller data, from the memory device of the pump device.

Claims

1. A wearable infusion pump system comprising:

a pump device including a pump housing structure that defines a space to non-removably receive a medicine cartridge and having a cap device with a penetration member that extends into an interior of the space to penetrate a septum of the medicine cartridge when the medicine cartridge is received in the space, the pump device including a drive system housed inside the pump housing structure to dispense medicine from the pump device when the medicine cartridge is received in the space, the pump housing structure containing therein a memory device storing user profile information; and

a controller device removably attachable to the pump device and including a user interface display, wherein when the controller device is removably attached to the pump device the controller device transmits control signals directly to the drive system so as to activate the drive system of the pump device to dispense medicine from the medicine cartridge, the controller device only once receiving the user profile information from the memory device of the pump device to program the controller device for use with the user.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the controller comprises a second memory device storing user profile information and the user profile information stored on the memory device in the pump device provides a backup storage for the user profile information stored on the second memory device.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the user profile information includes the types of medicine that the user is permitted to use.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the controller device comprises a user interface including the user interface display and one or more buttons.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the controller device is reusable.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the user profile information comprises the user'"'"'s identifying information.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the user profile information comprises the user'"'"'s physical characteristics.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the user profile information comprises at least one the user'"'"'s blood glucose to insulin ratio, the user'"'"'s blood glucose to carbohydrate ratio, the user'"'"'s blood glucose to activity ratio, or the user'"'"'s basal insulin delivery schedule or profile.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the pump device is non-reusable and disposable.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the drive system of the pump device dispenses the medicine only in response to the control signals from the removable controller device, the controller device housing the only processor in the system that includes both the pump device and the controller device, the pump device housing circuitry that is free of any processor.

11. A wearable infusion pump system comprising:

a disposable and non-reusable pump device including a pump housing structure that defines a space to only once receive a medicine source during a full operational life of the pump device, the disposable and non-reusable pump device including a cap device with a penetration member that extends into an interior of the space to penetrate a septum of the medicine source when the medicine cartridge is received in the space and a drive system housed inside the pump housing structure to dispense medicine from the pump device when the medicine source is received in the space, the pump housing structure containing therein a first memory device storing a software program including machine executable instructions;

a reusable controller device removably attachable to the disposable and non-reusable pump device, wherein when the controller device is removably attached to the pump device, the controller device activates the drive system to dispense the medicine source, the controller device receiving the software program from the first memory device that is housed inside the pump housing structure of the disposable and non-reusable pump device and storing the software program on a second memory device of the controller device.

12. The wearable infusion pump system of claim 11, wherein the controller device executes the machine executable instructions of the software program to update a controller operation software stored by the controller device.

13. The wearable infusion pump system of claim 12, wherein the second memory device of the controller device transmits user profile information to the first memory device of the pump device so that the user profile information is stored on both the first and second memory devices.

14. The wearable infusion pump system of claim 13, wherein the user profile information stored on the first memory device of the pump device provides a backup storage for the user profile information stored on the second memory device of the controller device.

15. The wearable infusion pump system of claim 14, wherein the user profile information is indicative of types of medicine that the user is permitted to use.

16. The wearable infusion pump system of claim 14, wherein the user profile information is indicative of the user'"'"'s identifying information.

17. The wearable infusion pump system of claim 14, wherein the user profile information is indicative of the user'"'"'s physical characteristics.

18. The wearable infusion pump system of claim 14, wherein the user profile information is indicative of at least one the user'"'"'s blood glucose to insulin ratio, the user'"'"'s blood glucose to carbohydrate ratio, the user'"'"'s blood glucose to activity ratio, or the user'"'"'s basal insulin delivery schedule or profile.

19. The wearable infusion pump system of claim 11, wherein the reusable controller device includes a user interface comprising a display device and a plurality of user-actuatable buttons.

20. The system of claim 11, wherein the drive system of the non-reusable pump device dispenses the medicine only in response to the control signals from the reusable controller device, the reusable controller device housing the only processor in the system that includes both the non-reusable pump device and the reusable controller device, the non-reusable pump device housing circuitry that is free of any processor.