Patent ID: 8895316
Filing Date: 2014-11-25
Classification: A61B,C12Q,G01N,Y10S,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A method for transmitting a glucose measure automatically from a handheld glucose meter to a diabetes management application residing on a portable computing device, comprising: determining, by the glucose meter, a blood glucose measure from a test strip inserted into a port of the glucose meter, the test strip having a reaction site for receiving a sample of blood from a patient; tagging, by the glucose meter, the glucose measure with a unique sequence number, where the sequence number is determined from a counter residing on the glucose meter; displaying, by the glucose meter, a measurement result interface on a display of the glucose meter, where the measurement result interface includes a numeric value for the glucose measure and is displayed in response to the determination of the blood glucose measure; transmitting, by the glucose meter, a message via a wireless data link to the diabetes management application, where transmission occurs automatically in response to navigating away from the measurement result interface and the message includes only one glucose measure; receiving, by the glucose meter, a request for a missing glucose measure, where the request identifies the missing glucose measure by a sequence number assigned by the glucose meter and the request is sent via the wireless data link by the diabetes management application in response to receiving the message; and transmitting, by the glucose meter, the missing glucose measure via the wireless data link to the diabetes management application, where the transmission occurs automatically in response to receiving the request.