Patent ID: 9743872
Date: 2017-08-29
CPC Classifications: A61B,A61M,G08B

Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method for mitigating single point failure of at least one device in an analyte monitoring system, comprising: receiving, at a second device, information from a first device that is related to functionality provided by one or more components of the first device; communicating, using the second device, the information related to the functionality of the one or more components of the first device to a third device; receiving, at the second device, a request from the third device that an alarm function be initiated if it is determined by the third device that the one or more components of the first device is not functioning in accordance with at least one predetermined criterion; and initiating, using the second device, the alarm to alert a user that the one or more components of the first device is not functioning in accordance with the at least one predetermined criterion.