Patent ID: 7103578

Claim:
A first computing device for accessing a medical device operably coupled to a second computing device via a network, the first computing device comprising: a storage device comprising a plurality of protocol components that configure the second computing device to communicate with a plurality of medical devices in accordance with communications protocols supported by the plurality of medical devices; a memory comprising a plurality of instructions; a network interface adapted to communicate with the second computing device via the network; and a processor operably coupled to the storage device, the memory, and the network interface and adapted to execute the plurality of instructions to cause the processor to receive from the second computing device via the network interface identification information from which a medical device type of the medical device coupled to the second computing device is determined, to provide protocol component information to the second computing device via the network interface which identifies the protocol component from the plurality of protocol components for the second computing device to use to communicate with the medical device, and to receive measurement data from the medical device via the network interface in response to the second computing device communicating with medical device via the protocol component identified by the protocol component information.