Universal adapter for personal health device standardization of non-standardized healthcare device and operating method thereof

• US 8,467,995 B2
• Filed: 09/28/2010
• Issued: 06/18/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: Lim, Joon Ho, Park, Chan Yong, Park, Soo Jun, Park, Seon Hee
• Primary Examiner(s): TSAI, CAROL S W
• Application Number:
  US12/892,857
• Publication Number:
  US 20110077910A1
• Time in Patent Office: 994 Days
• Field of Search: 702/188, 705/2, 705/3, 600/300, 600/365, 604/66
• 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 configured to communicate 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 configured to receive the measurement data from the adapter interface device, generate a PHD standard message including the received measurement data, and transmit the PHD standard message to a PHD gateway according to a PHD standard communication scheme,

wherein the adapter interface device comprises;

a healthcare device interface module configured to receive the measurement data from the non-standardized healthcare device;

a communication module configured to receive the measurement data from the healthcare device interface module and transmit the received measurement data to the universal adapter device; and

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

2. The universal adapter of claim 1, 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.

3. The universal adapter of claim 2, wherein communication according to the adapter protocol includes using a message of a predetermined size, the message including information including a type of the non-standardized healthcare device, a type of the measurement data, the measurement data, and data measurement time information.

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

an adapter interface device configured to communicate 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 configured to receive the measurement data from the adapter interface device, generate a PHD standard message including the received measurement data, and transmit the PHD standard message to a PHD gateway according to a PHD standard communication scheme,

wherein the universal adapter device comprises;

an adapter interface communication module configured to receive the measurement data from the adapter interface device;

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

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

5. The universal adapter of claim 4, 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.

6. The universal adapter of claim 4, wherein the PHD standard communication module generates the PHD standard message by using a PHD message template.

7. The universal adapter of claim 6, wherein the PHD message template is generated by using information regarding a type of the non-standardized healthcare device and a type of the measurement data.

8. The universal adapter of claim 6, 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.

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

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

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

generating, by the universal adapter device, a PHD standard message including the measurement data; and

transmitting, by the universal adapter device, the PHD standard message to a PHD gateway according to a PHD standard communication scheme,

wherein a healthcare device interface module of the adapter interface device receives the measurement data from the non-standardized healthcare device,

wherein a communication module of the adapter interface device receives the measurement data from the healthcare device interface module and transmits the received measurement data to the universal adapter device, and

wherein a control module is configured to control operations of the healthcare device interface module control and the communication module.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein generating the PHD standard message includes merging the measurement data and a PHD message template.

11. The method of claim 9 wherein the measurement data is transmitted from the adapter interface device to the universal adapter device according to an adapter protocol, and

wherein a message according to the adapter protocol has a predetermined size, the message including a type of the non-standardized healthcare device, a type of the measurement data, the measurement data, and data measurement time information.