Patent ID: 7779183

Claim:
A communication adapter for a portable, ambulant-operable medical device for diagnosis or treatment of a disorder of glucose metabolism, the communication adapter processing data between the medical device and a computer that serves for displaying operating parameters or measuring data of the medical device and/or for operating the medical device, comprising: the medical device comprises, a device processor for controlling the device, and a device-adapter interface for the communication of the device processor with a communication adapter, and the communication adapter comprises, an adapter processor for controlling the communication adapter, an adapter-device interface for the communication of the communication adapter with the medical device, an adapter-computer interface for the communication of the adapter processor with a computer interface of the computer, and a device driver with corresponding transmission protocol for the communication with the device, and wherein the communication adapter comprises a software or firmware that performs data analysis of a data read-out from the medical device independent of the computer, the communications adapter temporarily stores the data read-out from the device, and the data adapter provides the data that had been analyzed in a data format that is displayed by the computer with standard display software.