Apparatus and method for processing wirelessly communicated data and clock information within an electronic device

• US 8,132,037 B2
• Filed: 06/06/2008
• Issued: 03/06/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/06/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Roche Diabetes Care Inc. (Roche Holding AG)
• Original Assignee: Roche Diagnostics International AG (Roche Holding AG)
• Inventors: Fehr, Jean-Noel, Von Buren, Thomas, Anliker, Urs
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee, Thomas
• Assistant Examiner(s): Chen, Xuxing
• Application Number:
  US12/134,944
• Publication Number:
  US 20090307517A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,369 Days
• Field of Search: 713/320, 713/500
• US Class Current: 713/500
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/20 for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilities, e.g. managing hospital staff or surgery rooms
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/7156 Arrangements for sequence synchronisation

Abstract

An electronic device (12) for processing information that includes data and clock information and that is wirelessly received from another electronic device (14) may include a first processor (18) that controls only wireless communications with the another electronic device (14) and excluding operations associated only with the electronic device (12), a second processor (16) that controls the operations associated only with the electronic device (12) and excluding the wireless communications with the another device (14), and means (30-30″″) for extracting the clock information and the data from the wirelessly received information and providing a corresponding clock signal and the data to the second processor (16) for synchronous receipt of the data by the second processor (16) using the clock signal.

Claims

1. An electronic device (12) for processing information that includes data and clock information and that is wirelessly received from another electronic device (14), the electronic device (12) comprising:

a first processor (18) that controls operations associated only with wireless communications with the another electronic device (14) and excluding operations associated only with the electronic device (12), the information wirelessly received by the electronic device from the another electronic device comprising at least one information packet containing the data and clock information, a preamble that precedes the at least one information packet and a start command that follows the preamble and that precedes the at least one information packet, the first processor (18) configured to extract the preamble, the start command and the at least one information packet from the information wirelessly received by the electronic device (12) from the another electronic device (14),

a second processor (16) that controls the operations associated only with the electronic device (12) and excluding the operations associated with the wireless communications with the another device (14),

a phase lock loop circuit (56) having an input connected to the first processor (18) a first output connected to the second processor (16) and a second output, the phase lock loop circuit (56) being normally in a sleep state and configured to be responsive to the preamble to wake up from the sleep state and to lock and run with a phase lock loop clock that operates at a phase lock loop clock rate, wherein the phase lock loop circuit (56) extracts the clock information from the at least one information packet and produces the clock signal and

a decoder circuit (58) having a first input connected to the first processor (18), a second input connected to the phase lock loop circuit (56) and an output connected to the second processor (16), wherein the decoder circuit (58) decodes the data from the at least one information packet and produces the data, the decoder circuit (58) decodes the start command by removing the clock information from the extracted start command as a function of the phase lock loop clock,

and wherein the decoded start command received by the second processor (16) alerts the second processor (16) that data will subsequently be sent thereto by the another electronic device (14)

wherein the second processor (16) synchronously receives the data using the clock signal,

and wherein only the second processor (16) acts upon the data.

2. The electronic device (12) of claim 1 wherein the phase lock loop circuit (56) is configured to be responsive to transitions of the data contained in the extracted start command to update operation of the phase lock loop circuit (56).

3. The electronic device (12) of claim 1 wherein the decoder circuit (58) is configured to decode the data from the at least one information packet by removing the clock information from the at least one information packet as a function of the phase lock loop clock.

4. The electronic device (12) of claim 3 wherein the phase lock loop circuit (56) is configured to be responsive to transitions of the data contained in the at least one information packet to update operation of the phase lock loop circuit (56).

5. The electronic device (12) of claim 3 wherein the information wirelessly received by the electronic device (12) from the another electronic device (14) comprises a plurality of information packets following the start command,

and wherein the decoder circuit (58) is configured to decode the data from the plurality of information packets by removing the clock information from each of the plurality of information packet as a function of the phase lock loop clock.

6. The electronic device (12) of claim 5 wherein the phase lock loop circuit (56) is configured to be responsive to transitions of the data contained in the each of the plurality of information packets to update operation of the phase lock loop circuit (56).

7. The electronic device (12) of claim 1 wherein the information wirelessly received by the electronic device (12) from the another electronic device (14) further comprises a stop command that follows the at least one information packet,

and wherein the first processor (18) is configured to extract the stop command from the information wirelessly received by the electronic device (12) from the another electronic device (14),

and wherein the decoder circuit (58) decodes the stop command by removing the clock information from the information extracted stop command as a function of the phase lock loop clock,

and wherein the decoded stop command received by the second processor (16) alerts the second processor (16) that no further data will subsequently be sent thereto by the another electronic device (14).

8. The electronic device (12) of claim 7 wherein the phase lock loop circuit (56) is configured to be responsive to transitions of the data contained in the extracted stop command to update operation of the phase lock loop circuit (56).

9. The electronic device (12) of claim 7 wherein the phase lock loop circuit (56) reenters the sleep state resulting from failure by the electronic device (12) to wirelessly receive further information from the another electronic device (14) following receipt of the stop command.