Patent ID: 8126732

Claim:
A medical data interchange device comprising: a processor; a plurality of medical device interfaces, wherein each medical device interface is configured to receive patient data directly from one or more of a plurality of different medical devices; a data relay transceiver; and a memory coupled to the processor and storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to: transition from a quiescent state to an active state in response to a signal transmitted from the one or more medical devices to prepare the medical data interchange device to receive data from the one or more medical devices; broadcast an authorization code stored in the medical data interchange device to the one or more medical devices in response to a request for authorization from the one or more medical devices for authenticating the medical data interchange device; automatically detect, based on a voltage of the signal from the one or more medical devices, a communication protocol used by the one or more medical devices; automatically configure a medical device interface of the plurality of medical device interfaces to communicate with the one or more medical devices using the detected communication protocol; receive data from a first medical device from the plurality of medical devices through a first wired connection coupled to a first medical device interface from the plurality of medical device interfaces, wherein the patient data comprises the data from the first medical device; determine, based upon data from the first medical device, a first medical device type of the first medical device; receive data from a second medical device from the plurality of medical devices through a second wired connection coupled to a second medical device interface of the plurality of the medical device interfaces wherein the patient data comprises the data from the second medical device; and transmit the patient data comprising at least one of the data from the first medical device and data from the second medical device to an intermediary device using the data relay transceiver; and wherein at least one of the first wired connection and the second wired connection comprises at least one of a: tip and sleeve (TS) connection; a tip, ring, and sleeve (TRS) connection; a tip, ring, ring and sleeve (TRRS) connection; a serial peripheral interface bus (SPI) connection; a universal serial bus (USB) connection; an RS-232 serial connection; an Ethernet connection; and a FireWire connection, and wherein the first wired connection is a different type of connection than the second wired connection.