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Publication Number
US-12296140-B2
Publication Date
2025-05-13
Expiration Date
Abstract
A variety of location-based and/or proximity-based features related to diabetes management systems can be used to improve maintenance compliance and/or to provide important information to PWD designated assistance entities (e.g., family, friends, givers, HCPs, emergency medicine providers) under certain conditions. In some cases, a user's location can be tracked or determined to trigger and/or time alerts about upcoming maintenance tasks in a way that will increase the likelihood that the PWD will immediately perform the designated maintenance task. In some cases, methods, devices, and systems provided herein can use proximity to non-paired mobile computing devices to deliver data to PWD designated assistance entities.
Core Innovation
A diabetes management system uses a peripheral device related to diabetes management and insulin delivery that obtains at least blood glucose levels for a patient. The peripheral device includes one or more interfaces for obtaining blood glucose levels, a wireless interface for communicating with other computing devices, and a data storage device configured to store a uniform resource locator (URL) for a remote server system and a unique identifier for the patient.
The peripheral device includes an input subsystem to receive input from the patient and an output subsystem to output information to the patient. The controller securely communicates with a paired mobile computing device authorized to communicate with the remote server system regarding the patient and automatically outputs an alert via the output subsystem in response to an alarm condition.
In response to the patient failing to provide a response via the input subsystem within a threshold period of time of the alert being output, the controller transmits a wireless beacon signal via the wireless interface. The beacon signal includes at least the URL encoded with the unique identifier for the patient and prompts a third party computing device passively monitoring for beacon signals to transmit a request to the remote server system using the encoded URL.
The diabetes management system includes a paired mobile computing device registered with the remote server system in association with a patient and one or more other computing devices registered with the remote server system in association with one or more other patients. The other computing devices are preauthorized by the patient to receive and present health-related information and are configured to passively monitor for the health-related information transmitted over one or more local wireless protocols. When no connectivity with the paired mobile computing device is detected, the peripheral device broadcasts secure wireless signals including the health-related information for detection and presentation to the one or more other computing devices.
Claims Coverage
The independent claims are clm-00001, clm-00009, and clm-00010. Across these independent claims, there are five main inventive features.
Secure diabetes peripheral storing remote URL and patient identifier
A peripheral device related to diabetes management and insulin delivery with one or more interfaces to obtain at least blood glucose levels, a wireless interface to communicate with other computing devices, a data storage device to store a uniform resource locator (URL) for a remote server system and a unique identifier for the patient, an input subsystem to receive input from the patient, and an output subsystem to output information to the patient.
Automatic alerting and threshold-based beacon transmission
A peripheral device controller to securely communicate with a paired mobile computing device authorized to communicate with the remote server system regarding the patient, to automatically output an alert via the output subsystem in response to an alarm condition, and to transmit a wireless beacon signal in response to the patient failing to provide a response via the input subsystem within a threshold period of time of the alert being output.
Encoded URL beacon prompting third party request
A wireless beacon signal configured such that the beacon signal includes at least the URL encoded with the unique identifier for the patient and is configured to prompt a third party computing device passively monitoring for beacon signals to transmit a request to the remote server system using the encoded URL.
Diabetes management system with paired mobile and preauthorized passive monitoring devices
A diabetes management system comprising a paired mobile computing device registered with a remote server system in association with a patient, and one or more other computing devices registered with the remote server system in association with one or more other patients, wherein the one or more other computing devices are preauthorized by the patient to receive and present health-related information from the patient and to passively monitor for the health-related information transmitted over one or more local wireless protocols.
Secure broadcast of health-related information upon no connectivity
A peripheral device that stores a unique identifier for the patient, authentication information to pair and securely communicate with the paired mobile computing device, and encryption information to securely broadcast the health-related information to the one or more other computing devices, and a controller to securely communicate with the paired mobile computing device and to broadcast secure wireless signals including the health-related information for detection and presentation to the one or more other computing devices in response to detecting no connectivity with the paired mobile computing device.
The independent claims collectively cover a peripheral diabetes-management/insulin-delivery device that obtains blood glucose levels, interacts with the patient via input/output subsystems, securely communicates with an authorized paired mobile computing device, automatically alerts on an alarm condition, and triggers a wireless beacon when the patient does not respond within a threshold period. The beacon encodes a remote-server URL and patient unique identifier to prompt a passively monitoring third party device to request the remote server. The system claim further adds a registered paired mobile device and preauthorized other computing devices that passively monitor and receive secure wireless signals when no connectivity is detected.
Stated Advantages
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Documented Applications
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