Remote medical device access
AssigneeRoche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.
InventorsTimothy L. Beck, Morris J. Young, Robert Meek
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Abstract
Systems, client computing devices, server computing devices, and methods are disclosed for accessing medical devices, providing remote access to medical devices and/or remotely accessing medical devices. In one exemplary embodiment, client computing devices utilize protocol components that may be obtained from a server computing device via a network to communicate with medical devices in a communications protocol supported by the medical device.
Claims6
A first computing device for accessing a medical device operably coupled to a second computing device via a network, the first computing device comprising:
- a storage device comprising a plurality of protocol components that configure the second computing device to communicate with a plurality of medical devices in accordance with communications protocols supported by the plurality of medical devices;
- a memory comprising a plurality of instructions;
- a network interface adapted to communicate with the second computing device via the network;
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- a processor operably coupled to the storage device, the memory, and the network interface and adapted to execute the plurality of instructions to cause the processor
- to receive from the second computing device via the network interface identification information from which a medical device type of the medical device coupled to the second computing device is determined,
- to provide protocol component information to the second computing device via the network interface which identifies the protocol component from the plurality of protocol components for the second computing device to use to communicate with the medical device, and
- to receive measurement data from the medical device via the network interface in response to the second computing device communicating with medical device via the protocol component identified by the protocol component information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.