Patent ID: 8680974
Filing Date: 2014-03-25
Classification: A61B,A61M,G06F

Abstract:
1. An electronic device for communicating wirelessly with another electronic device, the electronic device comprising: a first processor configured to control only wireless communications with the another device but not operations associated only with the electronic device, a second processor configured to control the operations associated only with the electronic device but not the wireless communications with the another device, a memory device connected between the first and second processors, the first and second processors each configured to exchange information with the memory device separately and independently of the exchange of information by the other of the first and second processors with the memory device, wherein the memory device comprises a third processor; a first power supply configured to produce a first supply voltage derived from the one or more batteries and provide the first supply voltage to the first second processor and to the memory unit, a second power supply configured to produce a second supply voltage derived from the one or more batteries and to provide the second supply voltage to the first processor, a test element receiving port configured to receive a test element, electronic circuitry configured to detect insertion of the test element into the test element receiving port and to produce a corresponding strip insert signal, a fourth processor configured to analyze a liquid sample provided on the test element to determine a concentration of an analyte in the liquid sample, the fourth processor configured to be responsive to the strip insert signal to provide a strip insertion message to the memory device, and wherein the memory device configured to be responsive to the strip insertion message to command orderly shutdown of the first processor and to then disable the second power supply such that the second power supply no longer produces the second supply voltage.