Patent ID: 8895315
Filing Date: 2014-11-25
Classification: C12Q,G01N,G08C,Y10S,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A method for displaying status during a wireless transmission of a glucose measure 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; displaying, by the glucose meter, the blood glucose measure on a result screen of the glucose meter, the display of the blood glucose measure being performed in response to the determination of the blood glucose measure; navigating, in response to an input command, from the result screen to a comment selection screen, the comment selection screen presenting a listing of comments for selection; receiving a selection of a comment from the listing of comments; navigating from the comment selection screen to the result screen; and transferring the blood glucose measure via a wireless data link to the diabetes management application in response to navigating away from the result screen after returning to the result screen once a comment from the selection screen has been chosen; and displaying, by the glucose meter, an interface on a display of the glucose meter concurrently with the transfer of the blood glucose measure to the diabetes management application, where the interface provides an indication of a data transfer, a numeric value for the blood glucose measure and an identifier for the portable computing device.