US 11,087,599 B2Granted

Medical device alert, optimization, personalization, and escalation

AssigneeRoche Diabetes Care, Inc.

InventorMark Gilmore Mears

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Abstract

An alert is used to inform a user that their blood glucose level has dropped below a threshold (e.g., the user is hypoglycemic) or has increased above a threshold (e.g., the user is hyperglycemic). There is a hierarchy of alerts from lowest priority to highest priority. The alert is communicated by a user device (e.g., a mobile device), which is, for example, a smartphone, smart watch, home automation device, or the like. The alert is modified in order to increase the likelihood that the user receives or acknowledges the alert within a minimal amount of time. An intensity level (e.g., a volume) of an alert is modified based on, for example, whether the user has acknowledged a previous alert. A modality or a sensory channel of an alert is changed if an initial alert does fails to elicit a response from the user.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method comprising:

detecting a triggering event for communicating a diabetes-related alert to a user;
estimating a hearing ability associated with the user based on user-specific criteria, wherein the user-specific criteria comprise at least one of an age or a gender of the user;
identifying a predefined volume level based on the estimated hearing ability associated with the user;
testing, via a mobile device associated with the user, a volume level of ambient noise in a user environment associated with the user;
determining, based on the estimated hearing ability, that the predefined volume level is higher than the volume level of the ambient noise in the user environment;
communicating, via an audible alert on the mobile device, the diabetes-related alert to the user at a volume level that is a predefined amount above the higher of the volume level of the ambient noise and the predefined volume level;
and
increasing the volume level of the diabetes-related alert by a predefined volume increase adjustment in response to a failure of the mobile device to receive a user acknowledgement of the diabetes-related alert after a predefined period of time.

5 more elements

An apparatus comprising:

a speaker;
and
a processor configured to:
detect a triggering event for communicating a diabetes-related alert to a user;
estimate a hearing ability associated with the user based on user-specific criteria, wherein the user-specific criteria comprise at least one of an age or a gender of the user;
identify a predefined volume level based on the estimated hearing ability associated with the user;
test a volume level of ambient noise in a user environment;
determine, based on the estimated hearing ability, that the predefined volume level is higher than the volume level of the ambient noise in the user environment;
communicate, via an audible alert from the speaker, the diabetes-related alert to the user at a volume level that is a predefined amount above the higher of the volume level of the ambient noise and the predefined volume level;
and
increase the volume level of the diabetes-related alert by a predefined volume increase adjustment in response to a failure to receive a user acknowledgement of the diabetes-related alert after a predefined period of time.

8 more elements

A system comprising:

a first device configured to communicate data associated with a blood glucose level of a user;
and
a second device configured to:
receive the data associated with the blood glucose level of the user;
detect, based on the data associated with the blood glucose level of the user, a triggering event for communicating a diabetes-related alert to the user;
estimate a hearing ability associated with the user based on user-specific criteria, wherein the user-specific criteria comprise at least one of an age or a gender of the user;
identify a predefined volume level based on the estimated hearing ability associated with the user;
test a volume level of ambient noise in a user environment;
determine, based on the estimated hearing ability, that the predefined volume level is higher than the volume level of the ambient noise in the user environment;
communicate, via an audible alert from the speaker, the diabetes-related alert to the user at a volume level that is a predefined amount above the higher of the volume level of the ambient noise and the predefined volume level;
and
increase the volume level of the diabetes-related alert by a predefined volume increase adjustment in response to a failure to receive a user acknowledgement of the diabetes-related alert after a predefined period of time.

9 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/896,408Filed 9 Jun 2020 · continuation
Priority: 5 Feb 2019
Published: US 2020/0250939 A124 Sep 2020
Granted: 10 Aug 2021
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification26 codes

G08B 3/1066
Paging receivers with audible signalling details: with other provisions not elsewhere provided for, e.g. turn-off protection
A61B 5/1176
Based on the shapes or appearances of their bodies or parts thereof: recognition of faces
A61B 5/121
Audiometering: evaluating hearing capacity
A61B 5/74
Measuring for diagnostic purposes ; Identification of persons: details of notification to user or communication with user or patient; User input means

Family

Application16/268,453Parent of this continuation · filed 5 Feb 2019
US 2020/0302758 A1Pre-grant publication · published 24 Sep 2020
US 10,720,029 B1Parent of this continuation
US 2020/0250939 A1Published application
US 11,087,599 B2This patent

From the US filing history. Foreign family members aren’t listed.