Methods and articles of manufacture for hosting a safety critical application on an uncontrolled data processing device
AssigneeAbbott Diabetes Care Inc.
InventorsDaniel M. BERNSTEIN, Saeed NEKOOMARAM, Mark K. SLOAN
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Abstract
Methods and articles of manufacture for hosting a safety critical application on an uncontrolled data processing device are provided. Various checks and combinations of checks including installation, functional, host integrity, coexistence, interoperability, power management, and environment checks are performed at various times to determine if the safety critical application operates properly on the device. The operation of the SCA on the UDPD may be controlled accordingly.
Claims21
(canceled)
A method for a safety critical application (SCA), installed on a mobile device in communication with a glucose monitoring device, to execute instructions stored on the mobile device to perform steps of the method, the steps comprising:
- detecting, responsive to a predetermined event, a change in a software program currently installed on the mobile device, wherein the change to the software program comprises an update from a prior version of the software program to a current version of the software program, and wherein the detecting the change comprises determining that the current version of the software program does not match the prior version of the software program;
- responsive to detecting the change to the software program, initiating a check to identify whether the SCA is incompatible with the current version of the software program, wherein the SCA is a glucose monitoring application;
- responsive to identifying the SCA is incompatible with the current version of the software program, displaying, on the mobile device, an alert that the SCA is incompatible with the current version of the software program;
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- responsive to identifying the SCA is incompatible with the current version of the software program, permitting the SCA to receive a glucose measurement from the glucose monitoring device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.