Transferring blood glucose measures seamlessly from a handheld glucose meter

摘要

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.

主权项

1. 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; and 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.