Scheduling of medicament bolus deliveries by a medicament delivery device at future dates and times with a computing device

Inventors

Alles, Matthew • Murray, Daniel • Lee, Joon Bok • O′Connor, Jason

Assignees

Insulet Corp

Abstract

Exemplary embodiments may enable a user to schedule medicament bolus deliveries, such as insulin boluses, for future dates and times. The exemplary embodiments may provide the ability to delay a scheduled medicament bolus delivery by short periods of time. The user may reschedule a scheduled medicament bolus delivery by entering a new date and/or time for the medicament bolus delivery. Still further, a user may cancel a scheduled medicament bolus delivery. In addition, exemplary embodiments may enable multiple medicament bolus deliveries to be viewed and managed.

Core Innovation

The invention relates to a medicament delivery system in which a processor displays a user interface for soliciting information from a user regarding a desired time for scheduling a medicament bolus delivery from a medicament delivery device. Based on the information received via the user interface, the processor determines that the user wishes to schedule medicament bolus delivery for a future time, and responsive to this determination, scheduling is begun by forwarding an instruction from the user interface device to a management device to instruct the medicament delivery device to schedule the medicament bolus delivery to the user for the future time.

In the described architecture, the management device is a handheld device that controls delivery of medicament by the medicament delivery device. The system further supports user interaction for managing scheduled future medicament bolus deliveries, including displaying a reminder before delivery occurs and displaying user-facing elements that are activatable to modify scheduled delivery. Modification is performed by sending an instruction from the user interface device to the management device to command modifying of the scheduled delivery of the medicament bolus by the medicament delivery device.

The invention additionally enables delaying and rescheduling of scheduled medicament bolus delivery using user-interface elements. A second user interface element activatable to delay the scheduled delivery is displayed, and based on input received via the user interface element, a communication is sent to the management device to cause the delivery of the medicament bolus to be delayed to a delayed time that is after the scheduled time. The user interface may allow selection of a magnitude of delay relative to the scheduled time, and the system may provide a display confirmation before implementing modifications.

Claims Coverage

The partial content identifies three independent claim sets covering smartwatch or vehicle infotainment-based scheduling of medicament bolus delivery to a handheld management device that controls the medicament delivery device, and user-interface-driven delaying and modification of scheduled delivery. Across the identified independent claims, the inventive focus includes scheduling from a wearable or vehicle user interface to a handheld management device, delaying with an activatable user interface and communication to the management device, and modifying scheduled delivery with activatable elements and sending an instruction to the management device.

Across the independent claims, the key claim coverage centers on user-interface-based scheduling of future medicament bolus delivery using a smartwatch or vehicle infotainment system, forwarding scheduling instructions to a handheld management device that controls the medicament delivery device, and enabling user-interface-driven delay and modification of scheduled delivery by sending communications or instructions to the management device.

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