Patent ID: 8458149
Filing Date: 2013-06-04
Classification: G16H,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of communicating information from a host computer to a sensor device, the method comprising: receiving a data stream from the host computer, the data stream including a plurality of bytes, one or more bytes of the plurality of bytes being associated with obtaining medical related information, one or more of the one or more bytes associated with obtaining medical related information including one or more named fields; parsing one or more bytes in the data stream at the sensor device; as a result of parsing the one or more bytes, identifying a type of medical related information; obtaining the medical related information from the sensor device, the medical related information being obtained using the one or more named fields, the one or more named fields determining a format of the medical related information; and sending the medical related information to the host computer; wherein the parsing of the one or more bytes in the data stream is performed using a single pass through the data stream, a data validity check being performed for each of an envelope section, a message section, and an object section of the data stream during the single pass through the data stream, the envelope section including a size of the envelope section, the message section and a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) field for the envelope section, the message section including a message class identifier that identifies a first class of medical information, the object section and a CRC field for the message section, the object section including an object class identifier that identifies a sub-class of the first class of medical information, an object data section and a CRC field for the object section, the medical related information being obtained after the data stream is parsed in the single pass through the data stream.