Wireless communication system

• US 8,095,123 B2
• Filed: 06/13/2005
• Issued: 01/10/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/13/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Roche Diabetes Care Inc. (Roche Holding AG)
• Original Assignee: Roche Diagnostics International AG (Roche Holding AG)
• Inventors: Gray, Steven
• Primary Examiner(s): Cai, Wayne
• Assistant Examiner(s): PEREZ, JULIO R
• Application Number:
  US11/151,323
• Publication Number:
  US 20060281454A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,402 Days
• Field of Search: 340/5.53, 340/539.1, 340/539.11, 340/539.12, 340/539.13, 340/572.7, 340/573.1, 340/539.36, 455/420, 600/300, 600/339, 600/468, 600/366, 600/587
• US Class Current: 455/418
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2560/0271 using a remote monitoring unit
• 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 5/4839 combined with drug delivery
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3523 using telemetric means
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3569 sublocal, e.g. between console and disposable
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3592 using telemetric means, e.g. radio or optical transmission
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/14244 adapted to be carried by the patient, e.g. portable on the body
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/14276 specially adapted for implantation
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/00 Connection management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/10 Connection setup

Abstract

A wireless communication system includes a first device having a communications control circuit configured to initiate transmission of a wireless communication signal, and a second device including a communication interface circuit and a number of other circuits. The communication interface circuit may be responsive to the wireless communication signal to provide information carried by the wireless communication signal to at least one of the other circuits. Alternatively or additionally, the communication interface circuit may be responsive to the wireless communication signal to receive information specified by the wireless communication signal from at least one of the other circuits and to transmit another wireless communication signal carrying the retrieved information back to the first device. In either case, the communication interface circuit is unresponsive to control thereof by any of the number of other circuits. The communications control circuit controls all wireless communication between the first and second devices.

Claims

1. A wireless communication system comprising:

a first electronic device having a first control circuit configured to initiate transmission by the first electronic device of a wireless communication signal, and

a second electronic device having a communication interface circuit electrically connected to a data interface circuit, the communication interface circuit having a second control circuit and circuitry responsive to energy present in the wireless communication signal to produce a supply voltage used to power the second control circuit, the second control circuit configured to convert at least a portion of the wireless communication signal to a command signal corresponding to one of a first command to provide first information carried by the wireless communication signal to the data interface circuit, a second command to receive second information specified by the wireless communication signal from the data interface circuit and a third command to poll the data interface circuit for third information, the second control circuit configured to be responsive to the first command to provide the first information to the data interface circuit, to the second command to receive the second information from the data interface circuit and control the communication interface circuit to wirelessly transmit the second information and to the third command to poll the data interface circuit for the third information and control the communication interface circuit to wirelessly transmit the third information only if the data interface circuit contains the third information,

and wherein no circuitry on-board the second electronic device controls wireless communication between the communication interface circuit of the second electronic device and the first control circuit, and the first control circuit is instead configured to control all wireless communication between the first and second electronic devices via control of the wireless communication signal.

2. The wireless communication system of claim 1 wherein the supply voltage produced by the circuitry responsive to energy present in the wireless communication signal to produce a supply voltage is further used to power the data interface circuit.

3. The wireless communication system of claim 1 wherein the circuitry responsive to energy present in the wireless communication signal to produce a supply voltage comprises:

a bridge rectifier responsive to the energy present in the wireless communication signal to produce a DC voltage, and

a voltage regulator responsive to the DC voltage produced by the bridge rectifier to produce the supply voltage.

4. The wireless communication system of claim 1 wherein the data interface circuit is a memory circuit.

5. The wireless communication system of claim 1 wherein the data interface circuit is a data processing circuit.

6. The wireless communication system of claim 1 wherein the first electronic device is an ambulatory medical device configured to provide a treatment to a body of a patient or to monitor a state of the body, and the second electronic device is a remote communication device.

7. The wireless communication system of claim 6 wherein the ambulatory medical device is configured to administer insulin to the body of the patient.

8. The wireless communication system of claim 6 wherein the ambulatory medical device is configured to monitor an analyte of the patient'"'"'s body.

9. The wireless communication system of claim 6 wherein the second electronic device comprises a plurality of remote communication devices.

10. The wireless communication system of claim 1 wherein the first electronic device is a communication device and the second electronic device is an ambulatory medical device configured to provide a treatment to a body of a patient or to monitor a state of the body.

11. The wireless communication system of claim 10 wherein the ambulatory medical device is configured to administer insulin to the body of the patient.

12. The wireless communication system of claim 10 wherein the ambulatory medical device is configured to monitor an analyte of the patient'"'"'s body.

13. The wireless communication system of claim 10 wherein the second electronic device comprises a plurality of ambulatory medical devices each configured to provide a selected treatment to the body of the patient or to monitor a selected state of the body.