Patent ID: 9672328
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: A61M,G16H,H04B,H04L

Claim:
1. A system for administering a medicine to a patient, comprising: an injection pen device, comprising: a mobile communication device in wireless communication with the injection pen, wherein the mobile communication device includes a data processing unit including a processor to process the dose data and a memory to store or buffer the dose data, a display to present a user interface, and a wireless communications unit to wirelessly receive the dose data from the injection pen device, wherein the data processing unit includes a software application program product stored in the memory of the data processing unit of the mobile communication device and having instructions stored thereon and operable to cause the mobile communication device to perform operations, comprising: processing one or more dose data corresponding to one or more dispensing events over a predetermined duration of time to form a dose dispensing sequence; and determining a type of dispensing event as a priming event or an injection event for the one or more dose data in the dose dispensing sequence that includes detecting a rate at which the medicine is dispensed for each dispensing event, and upon a determination that the rate at which the medicine is dispensed is slower than a predetermined dispensing rate threshold, identifying the dispensing event as the priming event, and upon a determination that the dispensed rate is faster than the predetermined dispensing rate threshold, identifying the dispensing event as the injection event.