Medical measurement device and measurement system

• US 9,877,652 B2
• Filed: 02/14/2014
• Issued: 01/30/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 02/18/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: ARKRAY, Inc
• Original Assignee: ARKRAY, Inc
• Inventors: Nakagawa, Takashi
• Primary Examiner(s): Alizada, Omeed
• Application Number:
  US14/181,349
• Publication Number:
  US 20140232554A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,446 Days
• Field of Search: 34053912
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0004 characterised by the type of physiological signal transmitted
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0015 characterised by features of the telemetry system
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/002 Monitoring the patient using a local or closed circuit, e.g. in a room or building A61B5/0017 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14532 for measuring glucose, e.g. by tissue impedance measurement
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 17/02 using a radio link
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 23/04 using light waves, e.g. infrared

Abstract

A measurement device includes: a measurement portion that acquires measurement data; a setting portion that specifies an external device as a transmission destination of the measurement data based on a signal transmitted from the external device, and allows communication with the external device without receiving input of authentication information; and a transmission and reception portion that transmits measurement data to the external device. The setting portion causes the transmission and reception portion to transmit identification information of the measurement device to the external device, and further to transmit confirmation information thereto in addition to the identification information. The confirmation information is used by the external device to decide whether or not the external device can handle the measurement data transmitted from the measurement device.

Claims

1. A medical measurement device that acquires information about a subject body, comprising:

a measurement portion that acquires measurement data obtained by measurement;

a memory portion;

a setting portion that specifies an external device as a transmission destination of the measurement data based on a signal transmitted from the external device, and records information of the specified external device in the memory portion to complete pairing between the medical measurement device and the specified external device, thereby allowing communication in a pairing mode with the external device without receiving input of authentication information; and

a transmission and reception portion that transmits the measurement data to the external device specified by the setting portion and receives data from the external device,

the setting portion causing the transmission and reception portion to transmit identification information of the measurement device for enabling mutual communication with respect to the specified external device, and after the pairing mode is established between the measurement device and the specified external device, further to transmit or receive confirmation information that is used for a decision of whether or not the measurement data transmitted from the measurement device is to be handled between the measurement device and the external device,

the confirmation information including information which enables the specified external device to handle the measurement data transmitted from the measuring device by comparing input received from a user of the specified external device with the confirmation information.

2. The measurement device according to claim 1, wherein the setting portion causes the transmission and reception portion to transmit the confirmation information to the external device in addition to the identification information at or after the transmission of the identification information of the measurement device.

3. The measurement device according to claim 2, wherein the setting portion specifies the external device as a transmission destination of the measurement data, and causes the transmission and reception portion to transmit the confirmation information to the external device after being communicable with the external device.

4. The measurement device according to claim 2, wherein the setting portion causes a display portion of the measurement device to display the confirmation information.

5. The measurement device according to claim 2,

wherein the setting portion causes the transmission and reception portion to transmit the confirmation information to the external device in association with measurement data to be transmitted by the transmission and reception portion, and

the confirmation information is information to be used by the external device to decide the usability of the measurement data in the external device.

6. The measurement device according to claim 2, wherein the setting portion cancels a state communicable with the external device when receiving a notification from the external device that the external device has judged the measurement data as not handleable based on the confirmation information.

7. The measurement device according to claim 1, wherein the setting portion decides whether or not measurement data transmitted from the measurement device is to be handled based on the confirmation information transmitted from the external device.

8. The measurement device according to claim 7, wherein the setting portion causes a display portion of the measurement device to display the confirmation information.

9. The measurement device according to claim 8, wherein the setting portion cancels a state communicable with the external device when judging the measurement data as not handleable based on the confirmation information.

13. The measurement device according to claim 1, wherein

when the input received from the user of the specified external device and the confirmation information do not match, the transmission and reception portion receives or transmits a deletion command from or to the specified external device and the setting portion deletes the information of the specified external device recorded in the memory portion.

10. A medical measurement system, comprising:

a medical measurement device that acquires information about a subject body; and

an external device,

wherein the measurement device includes;

a measurement portion that acquires measurement data obtained by measurement;

a memory portion;

a setting portion that specifies the external device as a transmission destination of the measurement data based on a signal transmitted from the external device, and records information of the specified external device in the memory portion to complete pairing between the medical measurement device and the specified external device, thereby allowing communication in a pairing mode with the external device without receiving input of authentication information; and

a transmission and reception portion that transmits the measurement data to the external device specified by the setting portion and receives data from the external device, and

the external device includes;

a measurement device determination portion that specifies a measurement device as a transmission source of the measurement data based on a signal from the measurement device, and allows communication with the measurement device without receiving input of authentication information; and

a reception portion that receives the measurement data from the specified measurement device,

the setting portion of the measurement device causing the transmission and reception portion to transmit identification information of the measurement device for enabling mutual communication with respect to the specified external device, and after the pairing mode is established between the measurement device and the specified external device, further to transmit or receive confirmation information that is used for a decision of whether or not the measurement data transmitted from the measurement device is to be handled between the measurement device and the external device,

the confirmation information including information which enables the specified external device to handle the measurement data transmitted from the measuring device by comparing input received from a user of the specified external device with the confirmation information.

11. The measurement system according to claim 10,

wherein the setting portion of the measurement device causes the transmission and reception portion to transmit the confirmation information with respect to the external device, and

the measurement device determination portion of the external device decides whether or not the external device is to handle the measurement data transmitted from the measurement device based on the confirmation information transmitted from the measurement device.

12. The measurement system according to claim 10,

wherein the setting portion of the measurement device causes the transmission and reception portion to receive the confirmation information from the external device, and

the setting portion of the measurement device decides whether or not the measurement device is to handle the measurement data transmitted from the measurement device based on the confirmation information transmitted from the external device.

14. The measurement system according to claim 10, wherein

when the input received from the user of the specified external device and the confirmation information do not match, the transmission and reception portion receives or transmits a deletion command from or to the specified external device and the setting portion deletes the information of the specified external device recorded in the memory portion.