Insulin pump programming software for selectively modifying configuration data

• US 8,452,953 B2
• Filed: 09/05/2008
• Issued: 05/28/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/05/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Roche Diabetes Care Inc. (Roche Holding AG)
• Original Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations Incorporated (Roche Holding AG)
• Inventors: Buck, Schuyler, Bush, Jason, Davenport, Kristin, Greenburg, Alan, Hellwig, Robert, Markisohn, David Bradley
• Primary Examiner(s): YANCHUS III, PAUL B
• Application Number:
  US12/205,600
• Publication Number:
  US 20100077198A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,726 Days
• Field of Search: 713/1, 713/2, 713/100
• US Class Current: 713/100
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/17 delivered via infusion or injection
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/40 for the management of medical equipment or devices, e.g. scheduling maintenance or upgrades
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation

Abstract

Insulin pump programming software is disclosed that permits selectively modifying insulin pump configuration files. The software facilitates retrieving a source file consisting of a configuration file or portion thereof from a source location. The source file may include general configuration data and insulin delivery data. Once retrieved, the source file may be edited, then the entire source file or a portion thereof may be saved to a target configuration file at one or more target locations. Only the portion of the target configuration file corresponding to the saved source file or portion thereof is replaced by the source file.

Claims

1. A system for programming an insulin pump, including:

a computing device;

a communication link between the computing device and the insulin pump; and

software for execution by the computing device, the software being configured to facilitate retrieval of a source configuration file from a source location external to the insulin pump, the source configuration file including general configuration data including parameters that do not directly affect the timing and amount of insulin delivery of an insulin pump and a set of individual basal rate profiles, the software having a first mode wherein the source configuration file is written to a target configuration file having general configuration data and a set of individual basal rate profiles and being stored on the insulin pump, a second mode wherein the set of profiles of the source configuration file is written to the target configuration file without writing the general configuration data of the source configuration file, and a third mode wherein one of the profiles of the set of profiles of the source configuration file is written to the target configuration file without writing the general configuration data and the other of the profiles of the set of profiles of the source configuration file.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the source location is a memory location of the computing device.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the target configuration file includes a first configuration file stored on the insulin pump and a second configuration file stored in a memory location of the computing device.

4. A system for programming an insulin pump, including:

means for retrieving a source configuration file from a source location external to the insulin pump, the source configuration file including general configuration data including parameters that do not directly affect the timing and amount of insulin delivery of an insulin pump and a set of individual basal rate profiles;

means for saving the source configuration file to a target configuration file having general configuration data and a set of individual basal rate profiles, the target configuration file being stored on the insulin pump;

means for saving the set of individual basal rate profiles of the source configuration file to the target configuration file without writing the general configuration data of the source configuration file; and

means for saving one of the individual basal rate profiles of the set of individual basal rate profiles of the source configuration file to the target configuration file without writing the general configuration data and the other of the individual basal rate profiles of the set of individual basal rate profiles of the source configuration file.