Time synchronization improvements for interoperable medical devices

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8977883-B2
Application number	US-201213681693-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 20, 2012
Priority date	Nov 20, 2012
Publication date	Mar 10, 2015
Grant date	Mar 10, 2015

Abstract

A computer-implemented method is presented for synchronizing time between two handheld medical devices that interoperate with each other. The method includes: determining a first time as measured by a first clock residing in the first medical device; determining a second time as measured by a second clock residing in a second medical device; evaluating whether the first clock is synchronized with the second clock; determining whether at least one of the first clock and the second clock was set manually by a user; and setting time of the first clock in accordance with the second time when the second clock was set manually by the user.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer-implemented method for synchronizing time between two handheld medical devices that interoperate with each other, comprising:
determining, by a first medical device, a first time as measured by a first clock residing in the first medical device;
determining, by the first medical device, a second time as measured by a second clock residing in a second medical device;
evaluating, by the first medical device, whether the first clock is synchroniz…

Assignees

• Roche Diagnostics Int Ag
• Roche Diagnostics Operations

Inventors

• Imhof Erich
• Konrad Guido
• Long James R
• Pash Phillip E
• Reinke Robert E

Classifications

• G16H40/40

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F19/3412

  Physics · mapped topic

• A61M5/1723 Primary

  Human Necessities · mapped topic

• G06F19/3468

  Physics · mapped topic

• G16H20/17

  Physics · mapped topic