Patent ID: 8037179
Filing Date: 2011-10-11
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A medical device control system, comprising: at least one medical device operable by the system; a voice receiver for receiving speech commands; at least one processor; software executing on said at least one processor for receiving message data and determining a corresponding XML document type; software executing on said at least one processor for generating a XML document based on the XML document type, the XML document including the message data; software executing on said processor for packetizing the XML document; two or more communication components, each communication component comprising an XML parser for parsing the XML document and extracting the message data, wherein at least one of the communication components is a command controller for operating the at least one medical device, and wherein at least one of the components is a user interface; software executing on said processor for sending the packetized XML document via a communication channel to the communication components; and wherein the command controller generates XML documents in which the message data includes at least one control command, based on the speech commands received by said voice receiver, for operating the at least one medical device.