Patent ID: 9544313
Date: 2017-01-10
CPC Classifications: A61B,G06F,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method of authentication in an in vivo analyte monitoring system, comprising: receiving, by a reader device, an identifier from a sensor control device over a local wireless communication path, wherein the sensor control device comprises a sensor and analyte monitoring circuitry, and wherein the sensor is adapted to be inserted into a body of a user; verifying, at the reader device, that the identifier is in the proper format or does not belong to a class of sensor control devices that are not for operation with the reader device; sending the identifier from the reader device over an internet to a trusted computer system having a stored registration database; and receiving, by the reader device, an authentication result from the trusted computer system over the internet, wherein the authentication result indicates whether the sensor control device is or is not authorized to operate with the reader device.