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US 8,803,688 B2Granted
System and method responsive to an event detected at a glucose monitoring device
AssigneesLisa Halff, Larry Halff
InventorsLisa Halff, Hami Halff, Nicole Y Sunaryo, Huda Abdul-Razzak, Scott Aron Tarver, Michael Yim
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Abstract
Embodiments include an apparatus responsive to an event detected at a glucose monitoring device. The apparatus includes circuitry to select an action to occur remote to the glucose monitoring device in response to the event. Embodiments include a response center responsive to an event at a glucose monitoring device to contact a person in response to the event.
Claims16
An apparatus, comprising:
- an external sensor external to and positioned at a glucose monitor, the sensor generating a signal indicating an alarm condition detected by the glucose monitor, the sensor being an accelerometer detecting when the glucose monitor vibrates to indicate an alarm condition detected by the glucose monitor, the accelerometer further generating the sensor signal in response to detecting the vibration;
- an alarm device responsive to the sensor signal to activate a first manifestation of an alarm, a type of the first manifestation of the alarm being at least one of a vibration, a sound, a visual manifestation, and an electronic communication, the alarm device automatically presenting a first cognitive reasoning skills test without third party intervention to a user of the glucose monitor in response to detecting the alarm condition.
A method, comprising:
- detecting a first alarm emanating from a glucose monitoring device, the detecting via a sensor positioned at the glucose monitoring device, the sensor producing a sensor signal in response to detecting the first alarm, the first alarm indicative of one of an adverse glucose level and an adverse glucose rate of change;
- receiving the sensor signal at a device remote from the glucose monitoring device, the remote device emitting a second alarm in response to the sensor signal;
- automatically presenting a first cognitive reasoning skills test in response to the sensor signal without third party intervention;
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- automatically presenting a second cognitive reasoning skills test upon a user failing the first cognitive reasoning skills test.
2 more elements
A non-transitory machine-readable medium embodying machine-readable instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform functions that include:
- emitting a second alarm signal in response to a first alarm signal detected by a sensor positioned at and removable from a glucose monitoring device;
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- automatically presenting a first cognitive reasoning skills test without human intervention in response to the first alarm signal;
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- automatically evaluating a response of a user of the glucose monitoring device to the first cognitive reasoning skills test without third party intervention;
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- wherein the second alarm signal is an adjustable sound substantially louder than a sound made by the glucose monitoring device.
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An apparatus, comprising:
- an external sensor external to and removably affixable to a glucose monitoring device, the sensor responsive, when positioned externally at the glucose monitoring device, to a first alarm emitted by the glucose monitoring device to produce a sensor signal, the first alarm indicative of one of an adverse glucose level and an adverse glucose rate of change;
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- a secondary alarm device positionable remote to the glucose monitoring device and responsive to the sensor signal, the secondary alarm device emitting a second alarm, the secondary alarm device automatically presenting a first cognitive reasoning skills test to a user of the glucose monitor in response to detecting the alarm condition and automatically terminating the second alarm if the user passes the first cognitive reasoning skills test, and upon the user failing the first cognitive reasoning skills test, the secondary alarm device emitting a third alarm different in type from the second alarm.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.