Patent ID: 8088098

Claim:
A system to deliver insulin to a user's body, the system comprising: a dispensing unit to deliver the insulin to the body; and a control mechanism to control delivery of basal insulin according to a predetermined basal infusion pattern specifying a sequence of basal rates for the user to receive at various time instances over a period of time, the control mechanism further configured to select, based on one or more personal characteristics of the user, the predetermined basal infusion pattern from a plurality of predetermined basal infusion patterns stored in a storage unit, the plurality of predetermined basal infusion patterns specifying respective sequences of basal rates for the user to receive at the various times instances over the period of time, wherein the control mechanism configured to select the predetermined basal infusion pattern is configured to: compute scores for at least some of the plurality of predetermined basal infusion patterns based on the one or more personal characteristics of the user, and select a pattern from the at least some of the plurality of the predetermined basal infusion patterns with a corresponding score determined to be a best score of the scores computed for the at least some of the plurality of the predetermined basal infusion patterns.