User profile backup system for an infusion pump device

• US 8,551,070 B2
• Filed: 10/03/2011
• Issued: 10/08/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/07/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Insulet Corporation
• Original Assignee: Asante Solutions, Inc
• Inventors: Miller, Steve, Sadler, John W.
• Primary Examiner(s): Sirmons, Kevin C
• Assistant Examiner(s): OSINSKI, BRADLEY JAMES
• Application Number:
  US13/251,869
• Publication Number:
  US 20120029708A1
• Time in Patent Office: 736 Days
• Field of Search: 604/890.1, 604/891.1, 604/151, 604/500, 222/325, 607/59
• US Class Current: 604/500
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2005/14268 with a reusable and a disposable component
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2005/31518 designed to reduce the overall size of an injection device, e.g. using flexible or pivotally connected chain-like rod members
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/16 with back-up system in case of failure
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/52 with memories providing a history of measured variating parameters of apparatus or patient
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/14244 adapted to be carried by the patient, e.g. portable on the body
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/14566 with a replaceable reservoir for receiving a piston rod of the pump
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/172 electrical or electronic A61M5/16804, A61M5/16831 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/17 delivered via infusion or injection
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/60 for the operation of medical equipment or devices

Abstract

Some embodiments of an infusion pump system can include a controller device that communicates with a pump device, the pump device having a memory device. The controller device can be configured to record controller-related data, such as user profile data on the memory device of the pump device. This user profile data that is stored in the memory of the pump device can serves as a data backup system that permits the user to program a new controller device in a situation where the original controller device is lost or damaged. In addition or in the alternative, the controller device can be configured to receive controller-related data, such as software update programs or backup controller data, from the memory device of the pump device.

Claims

1. A method of programming a infusion pump system, the method comprising:

removably attaching a first reusable controller device to a disposable pump device, the first controller device housing a first memory device comprising user profile information, the pump device housing medicine and a drive system to dispense the medicine from the pump device in response to electrical control signals output from the first reusable controller device directly to the pump device, the pump device housing a pump memory device, wherein the first reusable controller device transmits the user profile information from the first memory device housed inside the controller device to the pump memory device housed inside the pump device;

detaching the pump device from the first reusable controller device; and

after said detaching the pump device from the first reusable controller device, removably attaching the pump device to a second reusable controller device, wherein a second memory device housed within the second controller device receives and stores the user profile information from the pump memory device housed within the pump device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the user profile information includes information entered by a physician or counselor.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the user profile information includes the types of medicine that the user is permitted to use.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the controller device comprises a user interface.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the pump device is a non-reusable, single-use device that is discarded when the medicine therein is exhausted.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the user profile information comprises both the user'"'"'s identifying information and the user'"'"'s physical characteristics, the user'"'"'s physical characteristics being different from the user'"'"'s identifying information.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the user profile information comprises the user'"'"'s physical characteristics.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the user profile information comprises at least one the user'"'"'s blood glucose to insulin ratio, the user'"'"'s blood glucose to carbohydrate ratio, the user'"'"'s blood glucose to activity ratio, or the user'"'"'s basal insulin delivery schedule or profile.