Patent ID: 7801988
Filing Date: 2010-09-21
Classification: A61N,G16H,G16Z,H04L

Abstract:
1. A proton beam therapy device communication system, the system comprising: a treatment station, having a plurality of hardware subsystems, that directs a proton beam towards a patient isocenter; and one or more host applications that monitors and controls operation of the treatment station; and an agent system connected to each host application using a single client data channel per host application, and further connected to each hardware component using a single data channel per hardware subsystem, wherein the agent system multiplexes operations between the one or more host applications and the plurality of hardware subsystems such that the one or more host applications and one or more of the plurality of hardware subsystems can be selectively removed without reconfiguration of the proton beam therapy device communication system thereby increasing scalability and flexibility of the treatment system, and wherein the agent system maps information from the one or more host applications to one or more proctors configured to monitor operational parameters of the plurality of hardware subsystems.