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Supervising and recovering software components associated with medical diagnostics instruments

  • US 9,489,251 B2
  • Filed: 12/06/2011
  • Issued: 11/08/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/06/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system for applying a recovery mechanism to a plurality of computer software components that control medical diagnostics, the system comprising:

  • a plurality of medical diagnostics instruments, each associated with a computer software component;

    a plurality of communication modules, each associated with a corresponding one of the plurality of the computer software components, wherein each one of the plurality of communication modules is arranged to report on malfunctioning computer software components; and

    a recovery module, configured to;

    (i) periodically obtain reports from the communication modules every certain period of time, the reports enabling a determination of whether computer software components are malfunctioning;

    (ii) reload the malfunctioning computer software components, wherein reloading the malfunctioning computer software component of a first medical diagnostics instrument comprises creating, at a communication layer, a client for providing a service to another computer software component of a second medical diagnostic instrument; and

    (iii) notify all communication modules of the reloading of the malfunctioning computer software components;

    wherein each communication module is further configured to re-establish a connection between the corresponding one of the plurality of the computer software components and the reloaded computer software components.

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