Patent ID: 7890348

Claim:
A medical diagnostic system, comprising: a plurality of medical diagnostic components communicatively coupled via communications circuitry; and a dynamic configuration system for the plurality of medical diagnostic components, comprising: a configuration data distributor of multi-component configuration data to the plurality of medical diagnostic components, wherein the multi-component configuration data includes a file having application-specific information for at least two medical diagnostic components of the plurality of medical diagnostic components; a plurality of multi-component configuration data receivers, wherein each of the at least two medical diagnostic components of the plurality of medical diagnostic components includes a respective multi-component configuration data receiver of the plurality of multi-component configuration data receivers to allow each of the at least two medical diagnostic components to receive the file having application-specific information for all of the at least two medical diagnostic components; a plurality of component-specific data extractors of the multi-component configuration data, wherein each of the at least two medical diagnostic components of the plurality of medical diagnostic components includes a respective component-specific data extractor of the plurality of component-specific data extractors to enable each of the at least two medical diagnostic components to identify a relevant portion of the multi-component configuration data specific to the respective medical diagnostic component and to extract the relevant portion for use with the respective medical diagnostic component; a plurality of configuration data processors, wherein each of the at least two medical diagnostic components of the plurality of medical diagnostic components includes a respective configuration data processor of the plurality of configuration data processors to facilitate configuration of each of the at least two medical diagnostic components based on the relevant portion of the multi-component configuration data extracted by the component-specific data extractor of the respective medical diagnostic component.