Detection of audible alerts
AssigneeMedtronic MiniMed, Inc.
InventorAlexander S. Campbell
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Abstract
A medical device may determine an occurrence of an alert condition. The medical device may transmit, to a separate device, data indicative of the occurrence of the alert condition. After transmitting the data indicative of the occurrence of the alert condition to the separate device, the medical device may determine, based on an audio signal generated by a microphone of the medical device, that the separate device has outputted an audible alert. The audio signal may correspond to audio captured by the microphone.
Claims18
A medical device comprising:
- a microphone configured to generate an audio signal indicative of audio captured by the microphone;
- one or more processors;
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- one or more processor-readable storage media storing instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause performance of:
- determining an occurrence of an alert condition;
- transmitting, to a separate device and via a short-range wireless communication channel, data indicative of the occurrence of the alert condition, wherein the separate device is physically separate from the medical device;
- after transmitting the data indicative of the occurrence of the alert condition to the separate device, determining, based on the audio signal generated by the microphone, whether the separate device has outputted an audible alert indicative of the alert condition;
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- responsive to determining that the separate device has not outputted the audible alert, causing performance of one or more remedial actions until the microphone generates a different audio signal indicative of the separate device outputting the audible alert indicative of the alert condition.
A method comprising:
- determining, by one or more processors of a medical device, an occurrence of an alert condition;
- causing transmission, by the one or more processors and to a separate device via a short-range wireless communication channel, of data indicative of the occurrence of the alert condition, wherein the separate device is physically separate from the medical device;
- after causing transmission of the data indicative of the occurrence of the alert condition to the separate device, determining, by the one or more processors and based on an audio signal generated by a microphone of the medical device, whether the separate device has outputted an audible alert indicative of the alert condition, wherein the audio signal corresponds to audio captured by the microphone;
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- responsive to determining that the separate device has not outputted the audible alert, causing, by the one or more processors, performance of one or more remedial actions until the microphone generates a different audio signal indicative of the separate device outputting the audible alert indicative of the alert condition.
One or more non-transitory processor-readable storage media storing instructions which, when executed by one or more processors of a medical device, cause performance of:
- determining an occurrence of an alert condition;
- transmitting, to a separate device via a short-range wireless communication channel, data indicative of the occurrence of the alert condition, wherein the separate device is physically separate from the medical device;
- after transmitting the data indicative of the occurrence of the alert condition to the separate device, determining, based on an audio signal generated by a microphone, whether the separate device has outputted an audible alert indicative of the alert condition, wherein the audio signal corresponds to audio captured by the microphone;
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- responsive to determining that the separate device has not outputted the audible alert, causing performance of one or more remedial actions until the microphone generates a different audio signal indicative of the separate device outputting the audible alert indicative of the alert condition.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.