Transferring blood glucose measures seamlessly from a handheld glucose meter
AssigneeRoche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.
InventorsCarol J. Batman, Craig L. Carlson, Michael J. Celentano
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Abstract
Persons with diabetes often carry a handheld glucose meter as well as a portable computing device, such as a mobile phone. Given the close proximity of these two devices, the portable computing device can serve as a data collector for the glucose measures taken by the glucose meter. Improved techniques are set forth for transferring glucose measures automatically and seamlessly to the patient's portable computing device, including transmitting a single glucose measure automatically in response to navigating away from an interface which displays to the glucose measure.
Claims14
A method for transmitting a glucose measure automatically from a handheld glucose meter to a diabetes management application residing on a portable computing device, comprising:
- determining, by the glucose meter, a blood glucose measure from a test strip inserted into a port of the glucose meter, the test strip having a reaction site for receiving a sample of blood from a patient;
- tagging, by the glucose meter, the glucose measure with a unique sequence number, where the sequence number is determined from a counter residing on the glucose meter;
- displaying, by the glucose meter, a measurement result interface on a display of the glucose meter, where the measurement result interface includes a numeric value for the glucose measure and is displayed in response to the determination of the blood glucose measure;
- transmitting, by the glucose meter, a message via a wireless data link to the diabetes management application, where transmission occurs automatically in response to navigating away from the measurement result interface and the message includes only one glucose measure;
- receiving, by the glucose meter, a request for a missing glucose measure, where the request identifies the missing glucose measure by a sequence number assigned by the glucose meter and the request is sent via the wireless data link by the diabetes management application in response to receiving the message;
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- transmitting, by the glucose meter, the missing glucose measure via the wireless data link to the diabetes management application, where the transmission occurs automatically in response to receiving the request.
A handheld glucose meter having an improved user interface for displaying status during transmission of a blood glucose measure, comprising:
- a port configured to receive a test strip having a reaction site for receiving a sample of blood from a patient;
- a glucose measurement module cooperatively operable with a test strip inserted in the port to measure glucose in a sample of blood residing on the test strip;
- a user interface module configured to receive the glucose measure from the glucose measurement module and tag the glucose measure with a unique sequence number from a counter, the user interface module further operates to display the glucose measure on a result screen of the glucose meter immediately following the determination of the glucose measure by the glucose measurement module;
- a wireless transceiver in data communication with the user interface module and operable to communicate a message automatically via a wireless data link to a diabetes management application residing on a portable computing device, where a transmission occurs automatically in response to navigating away from the result screen and the message includes only one glucose measure
- wherein the user interface module navigates, in response to an input command, from the result screen to a comment selection screen, the comment selection screen presents a listing of comments for selection;
- and navigates back from the comment selection screen back to the result screen in response to receiving a comment selection;
- wherein the wireless transceiver transfers the blood glucose measure and the comment to the diabetes management application in response to navigating away from the result screen after returning to the result screen once a comment from the selection screen has been chosen.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.