Patent ID: 8467995

Claim:
A universal adapter for the personal health device (PHD) standardization of a non-standardized healthcare device, the adapter comprising: an adapter interface device configured to communicate with a non-standardized healthcare device, which does not follow PHD standardization, to collect measurement data measured by the non-standardized healthcare device; and a universal adapter device configured to receive the measurement data from the adapter interface device, generate a PHD standard message including the received measurement data, and transmit the PHD standard message to a PHD gateway according to a PHD standard communication scheme, wherein the adapter interface device comprises: a healthcare device interface module configured to receive the measurement data from the non-standardized healthcare device; a communication module configured to receive the measurement data from the healthcare device interface module and transmit the received measurement data to the universal adapter device; and a control module configured to control operations of the healthcare device interface module and the communication module.