Handheld diabetes manager with automated disconnect feature

• US 8,929,823 B2
• Filed: 12/05/2012
• Issued: 01/06/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/29/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Roche Diabetes Care Inc. (Roche Holding AG)
• Original Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations Incorporated (Roche Holding AG)
• Inventors: Mears, Mark G., Nierzwick, Mark, Pash, Phillip E., Rizzo, Vincent R., Steiner, Bettina, Westerfield, Kristin M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Yun, Eugene
• Application Number:
  US13/705,278
• Publication Number:
  US 20130171938A1
• Time in Patent Office: 762 Days
• Field of Search: 455/41.2, 455/41.3, 455/575.6, 455/90.1, 455/100
• US Class Current: 455/41.2
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2562/0295 Strip shaped analyte sensors for apparatus classified in A61B5/145 or A61B5/157 disposable multilayered or laminated electrodes G01N27/307; details of handling chemical test elements G01N33/4875
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0002 Remote monitoring of patients using telemetry, e.g. transmission of vital signals via a communication network A61B5/07 takes precedence; transmission systems for measured values G08C; transmission H04B; transmission of digital information H04L; wireless communication networks H04W
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14532 for measuring glucose, e.g. by tissue impedance measurement
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7435 Displaying user selection data, e.g. icons in a graphical user interface
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/35 Communication
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3569 sublocal, e.g. between console and disposable
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3584 using modem, internet or bluetooth
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3592 using telemetric means, e.g. radio or optical transmission
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/502 User interfaces, e.g. screens or keyboards
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/505 Touch-screens; Virtual keyboard or keypads; Virtual buttons; Soft keys; Mouse touches
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2230/201 Glucose concentration
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/14244 adapted to be carried by the patient, e.g. portable on the body
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/1723 using feedback of body parameters, e.g. blood-sugar, pressure measurement of body parameters A61B5/00
• CPC Class Codes: F04C 2270/0421 Controlled or regulated
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 33/66 involving blood sugars, e.g. galactose
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 15/02 electric
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/17 delivered via infusion or injection
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 15/02 Reducing interference from electric apparatus by means located at or near the interfering apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/26 : at least one of which is mobile
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/50 : Service provisioning or reconfiguring
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/20 : Master-slave selection or change arrangements

Abstract

A computer-implemented method is provided for a handheld diabetes-management device to establish a data connection with a Continua manager. The method includes: receiving a request to establish a new data connection with a computing device, where the computing device is physically separated from the diabetes-management device and operates as a manager in accordance with IEEE standard 11073; determining whether the diabetes-management device has an existing data connection with a medical device that is physically separated from the diabetes-management device; terminating the existing data connection with the medical device in response to the determination that the diabetes-management device has an existing connection with the medical device; and establishing a new data connection with the computing device in accordance with IEEE standard 11073.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for a handheld diabetes-management device to establish a data connection with a Continua manager, comprising:

receiving, by the diabetes-management device, a request to establish a new data connection with a computing device, where the computing device is physically separated from the diabetes-management device and operates as a manager in accordance with IEEE standard 11073;

determining, by the diabetes-management device, whether the diabetes-management device has an existing data connection with a medical device that is physically separated from the diabetes-management device, the determination being in response to receiving the request to establish a new data connection;

terminating, by the diabetes-management device, the existing data connection with the medical device, the termination being in response to the determination that the diabetes-management device has an existing connection with the medical device; and

establishing, by the diabetes-management device, a new data connection with the computing device in accordance with IEEE standard 11073.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprises determining whether the existing data connection is a wired connection with the medical device and, prior to establishing the new data connection with the computing device, prompting a user to disconnect the medical device from the diabetes-management device, thereby terminating the existing data connection with the medical device.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein the existing data connection operates in accordance with Universal Serial Bus standard.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprises detecting, by the diabetes-management device, presence of a wired connection with the computing device and establishing the new data connection via the wired connection with the computing device upon detecting the presence of the wired connection.

5. The method of claim 4 further comprises establishing, by the diabetes-management device, a wireless data connection with the computing device in absence of a wired connection with the computing device.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein establishing a new data connection further comprises sending an associate request by the diabetes-management device to the computing device in accordance with IEEE standard 11073.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the new data connection operates in accordance with Bluetooth wireless technology standard.

8. A computer-implemented method for a handheld diabetes-management device to establish a data connection with a Continua manager, comprising:

receiving, by the diabetes-management device, a request to establish a new data connection with a computing device, where the computing device is physically separated from the diabetes-management device and operates as a manager in accordance with IEEE standard 11073;

determining, by the diabetes-management device, whether the diabetes-management device has an existing data connection with a medical device that is physically separated from the diabetes-management device, the determination being in response to receiving the request to establish a new data connection;

determining whether the medical device is an insulin pump, the determination being in response to the determination that the diabetes-management device has an existing connection;

terminating, by the diabetes-management device, the existing data connection with the insulin pump, the termination being in response to the determination that the medical device is an insulin pump; and

establishing, by the diabetes-management device, a new data connection with the computing device in accordance with IEEE standard 11073.

9. The method of claim 8 further comprises determining whether the existing data connection is a wired connection with the medical device and, prior to establishing the new data connection with the computing device, prompting a user to disconnect the medical device from the diabetes-management device, thereby terminating the existing data connection with the medical device.

10. The method of claim 9 wherein the existing data connection operates in accordance with Universal Serial Bus standard.

11. The method of claim 8 further comprises detecting, by the diabetes-management device, presence of a wired connection with the computing device and establishing the new data connection via the wired connection with the computing device upon detecting the presence of the wired connection.

12. The method of claim 11 further comprises establishing, by the diabetes-management device, a wireless data connection with the computing device in absence of a wired connection with the computing device.

13. The method of claim 11 wherein establishing a new data connection further comprises sending an associate request by the diabetes-management device to the computing device in accordance with IEEE standard 11073.

14. The method of claim 11 wherein the new data connection operates in accordance with Bluetooth wireless technology standard.

15. A handheld diabetes-management device having an automated disconnect feature when establishing a data connection with a Continua manager, comprising:

a port configured to receive a test strip for blood glucose measurement;

a blood glucose measurement module cooperatively operable with a test strip inserted in the port for blood glucose measurement;

a communications module that selectively communicates via a wireless data link with a medical device, the medical device being physically separated from the diabetes manager; and

a connectivity module configured to receive a request to establish a new data connection with a computing device and operates, in response to the request, to determine whether the diabetes-management device has an existing data connection with the medical device, and further operates, in response to the determination that the diabetes-management device has an existing data connection with the medical device, to terminate the existing data connection with the medical device, where the computing device is physically separated from the diabetes-management device and operates as a manager in accordance with IEEE standard 11073.

16. The handheld diabetes-management device of claim 15 wherein the communications module establishes a new data connection with the computing device following termination of the existing data connection with the medical device.

17. The handheld diabetes-management device of claim 15 wherein the communications module established a new data connection by sending an associate request to the computing device in accordance with IEEE standard 11073.