Patent ID: 8560131

Claim:
A method for setting a basal rate profile for an insulin pump with an input unit and a calculation unit, comprising: defining a number of interpolation nodes for the basal rate profile by means of the input unit of the insulin pump, an interpolation node being defined by a start time of a basal rate release and a basal rate to be released associated with this start time or an absolute or relative amount of insulin to be released associated with this start time; forming a continuous function with respect to the interpolation nodes by interpolation and/or approximation using the calculation unit of the insulin pump, said function imaging the interpolation nodes by connecting each interpolation node to the previous interpolation node and subsequent interpolation node by a continuous curve; and generating a temporal sequence of basal rates to be released by the insulin pump during specific time intervals from the continuous function using the calculation unit of the insulin pump, the continuous function for generating the temporal sequence of basal rates using the calculation unit being discretized.