System, method, and apparatus for communicating data

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11227687-B2
Application number	US-201815992547-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 30, 2018
Priority date	Jan 22, 2010
Publication date	Jan 18, 2022
Grant date	Jan 18, 2022

Abstract

A system includes first and second hubs. The first hub is configured to communicate data with a medical device through a Local Area Network and package the data into at least one application-layer packet. The second hub is configured to receive the at least one application-layer packet from the first hub operatively through at least one cellular network.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of communication, the method comprising:
communicating data from a medical device to a first hub via a Local Area Network;
packaging the data from the medical device into at least one packet, wherein a packet of the at least one packet includes a header;
communicating the at least one packet over a network through at least one communications channel of the first hub;
communicating an alarm from the first hub to a medical device over an alarm wire bus when an alarm condition occurs within the first hub;
communicating a fatal-error fault condition of the hub over a failsafe bus to the medical device; and
executing at least mitigation by the medical device in response to the alarm.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the act of communicating the data from the medical device to the first hub via the Local Area Network is receiving the data by the first hub via the Local Area Network from the medical device.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein a first communications channel of the at least one communications channel is over a first cellular network, and a second communications channel of the at least one communications channel is over a second cellular network.

4. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising associating the first hub with an identification value.

5. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising associating the first hub with a patient.

6. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising associating the first hub with a medical device.

7. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising associating the first hub with a treatment.

8. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising encrypting the data.

9. The method according to claim 8 , further comprising:
receiving the at least one packet over the network through at least one communications channel by a second hub; and
decrypting the data within the second hub.

10. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising determining a time parameter.

11. The method according to claim 10 , wherein the time parameter includes one of a date and a time.

12. The method according to claim 10 , wherein a satellite system signal is used to determine the time parameter.

13. The method according to claim 10 , further comprising adding the time parameter to the header of the packet.

14. The method according to claim 13 , further comprising determining whether the time parameter within the header of the packet meets a first predetermined criterion.

15. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising adding a sequence number to the header of the packet.

16. The method according to claim 15 , further comprising reassembling the data using the sequence number of the header of the packet.

17. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising determining an error-detection code corresponding to at least a portion of the packet.

18. The method according to claim 17 , further comprising adding the error-detection code to the header of the packet.

19. The method according to claim 18 , determining whether the at least a portion of the packet is error free by examining the error-detection code within the header of the packet.

20. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
determining whether at least one of the packet and the data satisfies a first predetermined criterion; and
communicating an acknowledgment character corresponding to at least one of the packet and the data to the first hub if the second predetermined criterion is satisfied.

21. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving the at least one packet over the network through the at least one communications channel by a second hub; and
routing the data from the second hub to at least one enterprise server.

22. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the act of packaging the data from the medical device into at least one packet includes packaging the data into the packet and into another packet, wherein the packet includes the header and the another packet includes another header.

23. The method according to claim 22 , further comprising:
adding a first sequence number to the header of the packet; and
adding a second sequence number to the another header of the another packet.

24. The method according to claim 23 , wherein the act of communicating the at least one packet over a network through one of at least one communications channel of the first hub, comprises:
communicating the packet over a first communications channel of the at least one communications channel of the first hub; and
communicating the another packet over a second communications channel of the at least one communications channel of the first hub.

25. The method according to claim 24 , further comprising:
receiving the packet and the another packet; and
reassembling the data in accordance with first sequence number of the packet and the second sequence numbers of the another packet.

26. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising encrypting, by the medical device, the data prior to communicating the data from the medical device to the first hub via the Local Area Network.

27. The method according to claim 26 , further comprising:
receiving the at least one packet over the network through at least one communications channel by a second hub;
routing the data from the second hub to an enterprise server; and
decrypting, by the enterprise server, the data for processing by the enterprise server.

Assignees

• Deka Products Lp

Inventors

• Kamen Dean
• Kerwin John M
• Ballantyne Todd A
• Morgan Frederick
• Demers Jason A
• Biasi John J

Classifications

• G16H10/60

  for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records · CPC title

• H04L69/14

  Multichannel or multilink protocols · CPC title

• G16H40/67 Primary

  for remote operation · CPC title

• H04L67/10

  in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network (software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46) · CPC title

• H04L43/10

  Active monitoring, e.g. heartbeat, ping or trace-route · CPC title