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An infusion system that includes a watch controller device and a communication system to transmit the communications from the watch controller device to an infusion device pump that controls delivery of fluids to the user's body. More particularly, these apparatuses and methods are for providing convenient monitoring and control of the infusion pump device in determining the appropriate amount of insulin to deliver.

An infusion system that includes a controller device and a communication system to transmit the communications from the controller device to an infusion device pump that controls delivery of fluids to the user's body. More particularly, these apparatuses and methods are for providing convenient monitoring and control of the infusion pump device in determining the appropriate amount of insulin to deliver.

An infusion system that includes a controller device and a communication system to provide for two-way communication between the controller device and an infusion device that controls delivery of fluids to a user's body. Either the controller device or the infusion device may be integrated with a characteristic determining device in a single housing. The housing, in turn, may include a test-strip receptacle and an illuminator disposed so as to illuminate an area covering the receptacle and a test-strip inserted therein. The illuminator may be configured to be activated automatically when a test strip is inserted into the receptacle, selectively by the user via a button, key, or similar mechanism, and / or when the ambient light level, measured, e.g., with a light sensor, falls below a predetermined intensity. The illuminator may be a LED emitting white light, and may provide illumination at various levels of intensity.

An infusion system that includes a controller device and a communication system to transmit the communications from the controller device to an infusion device pump that controls delivery of fluids to the user's body. More particularly, these apparatuses and methods are for providing convenient monitoring and control of the infusion pump device in determining the appropriate amount of insulin to deliver.

A method for optimizing data transmission in a data transfer system is provided where the data transfer system includes a transmitting device that transmits data to a receiving device through a switch. The method includes monitoring data transfer congestion in a buffer of the switch. The monitoring includes marking the data when data transfer congestion is detected. If data transfer congestion is detected, the method includes marking an acknowledgement (ACK) data after the marked data is received by the receiving device. The method further includes transmitting the ACK data from the receiving device to the transmitting device. The method also includes adjusting a data transfer rate between the transmitting device and the receiving device based on data transfer congestion. Monitoring data transfer congestion includes marking the data according to a probability corresponding to a percentage of time that the buffer is full.

The device includes a connector, a transponder, an optical test unit, an antenna, and a transceiver. The transponder is attached to the connector. The antenna is attached to the optical test unit. The transceiver is electrically connected to the antenna. When the connector is attached to the optical test unit and the optical test unit performs diagnostic testing on the connector and its associated optical fiber, the results or data of the diagnostic testing are stored in the optical test unit for later downloading from the optical test unit to the transponder. The test data can include attenuation loss, insertion loss, and back reflection test data. Once the connector is connected to a host device, the data associated with the specific connector can uploaded from the transponder to the host device.

Wireless input device apparatus allows a user to input data into cellular phones, personal digital assistant, TVs and computers . . . The user holds a wireless stylus and performs movements corresponding to graffiti. In the preferred embodiment, graffiti refers to PalmPilot graffiti. The wireless stylus identifies the user symbols and wirelessly sends them to a terminal device. In the preferred embodiment, the wireless stylus uses a BlueTooth transmitter for connecting and sending data to terminal devices, thus, the wireless stylus can be used for inputting data into any BlueTooth compliant system. In another embodiment, the wireless stylus sends the raw accelerometer data to a terminal device, which identifies the user symbols.

The present invention provides wireless communication methods utilizing a single antenna with multiple channels and the devices thereof. The method includes providing a plurality of communication channels within the single antenna. The plurality of communication channels may include a probe channel and a data channel. The single antenna may selectively switch between the probe channel and the data channel based on a probe signal transmitted in the probe channel so as to facilitate data transmission.

The present invention relates to an electronic device 101 for use in a transaction process. The electronic device 101 comprises a first wireless communication module for communicating with a second electronic device 102 and a second wireless communication module for communicating with a payment terminal 106 for the purpose of performing a payment transaction. The electronic device 101 is capable of relaying data between the second device 102 and the payment terminal 106. A method of performing a transaction is also disclosed, said method comprising the following steps. Firstly, a first wireless communication between an electronic device 101 and a second electronic device 102 is established. Secondly, transaction details required to perform a contactless transaction are uploaded from the second electronic device 102 to the electronic device 101 and securely stored on the electronic device 101. Thirdly a second wireless communication between the electronic device 101 and a payment terminal 106 is established. Finally, the payment terminal 106 is provided with the transaction details.

There is provided an intelligent electronic device for responding to user data and information requests regarding power usage and power quality for any metered point within a power distribution system. The intelligent electronic device includes a first network interface which receives client side information and data requests, which are processed in accordance with a network protocol and forwarded to a network interface via a network socket interface translator which translates management signals to facilitate the eventual data transfer. Protocol routines process the requests by constructing an internal data request in certain cases and forwards the internal data request to a data interface for translation from an internal data request format of the protocol routine format to a native database format. The database receives the translated request, and retrieves the requested data from a measuring unit of the electric power meter, and forwards the data back to the requesting client.

The present invention provides methods and systems for improving clinical trials of experimental therapies. The present invention uses minimally invasive, leadless implantable devices that facilitate long term monitoring of a physiological signal (e.g., neural signals) from a patient population which may provide an indication of the effect of the experimental therapy on the patient population. In preferred embodiments, neural signals are sampled from the patients in the patient population with an externally powered, leadless implanted device and are transmitted to an external device for further processing.

An apparatus comprises a base vehicle, a takeoff and landing system, a rack system, a refueling system associated with the base vehicle, and a controller. The rack system comprises a group of racks with slots in which the slots receive unmanned aerial vehicles, provide refueling connections that facilitate refueling of the unmanned aerial vehicles located in the slots, and provide data connections that facilitate data transmission with the unmanned aerial vehicles located in the slots. The refueling system refuels an unmanned aerial vehicle located in a slot using a refueling connection in the refueling connections. The controller communicates with the unmanned aerial vehicle using a data connection and control the refueling of the unmanned aerial vehicles by the refueling system while the unmanned aerial vehicle is in the slot, enabling exchanging data with the unmanned aerial vehicle and the refueling of the unmanned aerial vehicle simultaneously.

Apparatuses and methods for mounting an inhaler module to an inhaler, indicating compliance with a treatment regiment, shaking an inhaler and indicating mixing status, and reminding a user to prime the inhaler. The mounting element can have an elastic body adapted to interchangeably join both an inhaler and an inhaler module. Compliance can be indicated at a glance for a caregiver by providing an indication of the level of asthma medication treatment compliance. An accelerometer can be used to track mixing status of the medication canister and timestamped accelerometer data can be used to provide appropriate reminders to prime the inhaler.

A Power Factor Correction (PFC) system providing near unity power factor for an AC power source (VAC) connected to a complex load. The system includes a bridge rectifier, boost or buck-boost converter, complex load, and pulse width modulation (PWM) controller to provide pulses with variable duty cycle to a power switch. The invention is a constant pulse proportional current (CPPC) PWM controller that generates trains of pulses constant in frequency and duty cycle for one semi-cycle of the VAC. The duty cycle of the driving signal is modified by applying open-loop correction signals to summing nodes of PWM circuits. Since the PWM provides a constant train of driving pulses with constant duty cycle for one semi-cycle of the VAC, the current absorbed by the converter is contingent and linearly proportional to the voltage. Thus, the output current follows the voltage resulting in a power factor of near unity.

A network system for actively controlling congestion to optimize throughput is provided. The network system includes a sending host which is configured to send packet traffic at a set rate. The network system also includes a sending switch for receiving the packet traffic. The sending switch includes an input buffer for receiving the packet traffic at the set rate where the input buffer is actively monitored to ascertain a capacity level. The sending switch also includes code for setting a probability factor that is correlated to the capacity level where the probability factor increases as the capacity level increases and decreases as the capacity level decreases. The sending switch also has code for randomly generating a value where the value is indicative of whether packets being sent by the sending switch are to be marked with a congestion indicator. The sending switch also includes transmit code that forwards the packet traffic out of the sending switch where the packet traffic includes one of marked packets and unmarked packets. The network system also has a receiving end which is the recipient of the packet traffic and also generates acknowledgment packets back to the sending host where the acknowledgment packets are marked with the congestion indicator when receiving marked packets and are not marked with the congestion indicator when receiving unmarked packets. In another example, the sending host is configured to monitor the acknowledgment packets and to adjust the set rate based on whether the acknowledgment packets are marked with the congestion indicator. In a further example, the set rate is decreased every time one of the marked packets is detected and increased when no marked packets are detected per round trip time (PRTT).

A medical analysis system for measuring properties and constituents of urine. The system includes a toilet unit mountable on a toilet bowl, readily attachable and detachable therefrom. The toilet unit includes a collection and sampling sub-unit for collecting and measuring the characteristics of urine and an electronics sub-unit for data collection and processing of the measured characteristics. The toilet unit also includes a communications link for data transfer between the collection and sampling and electronics sub-units. It also includes a means for removably fastening the collection and sampling sub-unit inside a toilet bowl, permitting ready attachment and removal of the toilet unit from a toilet bowl as desired. A wall unit, having a communications link for data transfer between the wall and toilet units, also includes means for storing and further processing the data for determining if changes have occurred in the measured characteristics of urine over time.

A system and method is disclosed for improving data integrity and the efficiency of data storage in separate memories of a computing device. In particular, the present invention introduces a combination of two types of memory, namely, an NVRAM and a Flash memory, as persistent memory for storing file data. By constantly caching a last data portion of a data file in an NVRAM, it avoids any sector erasing for individual bits in a Flash memory. Such an approach increases the data storage efficiency and life expectancy of a Flash memory. The present invention has very broad application in almost all computing devices, including any PC (desktop or laptop) and server computers. It demonstrates particularly advantageous performance in portable electronic devices implementing Windows™ CE operating systems.

The present invention provides methods for minimally invasive, long term monitoring of a physiological signal (e.g., neural signals) from a patient. In preferred embodiments, neural signals are sampled from the patient with an externally powered, leadless implanted device and are transmitted to an external device for further processing.

A telemetry interface module according to the invention may be utilized to facilitate remote programming of a patient medical device such as an implantable medical device. The telemetry interface module includes processing logic, memory, and various software / firmware applications that are capable of generating a user interface (“UI”) description for transmission to a remote computing device. The UI description is transmitted in accordance with a standardized data communication protocol, and the remote computing device renders a UI in response to the received UI description. The remote computing device processes and renders the UI using its native operating system and native UI controls, thus eliminating the need for computing hardware customized for the particular medical device telemetry application.

The invention discloses an elevator remote monitor system and method based on wireless network. The system includes: an elevator data field collection device independent with an elevator control system, a monitor platform and a monitor terminal, the elevator data field collection device is composed of a carriage top data collection device and a control board data collector which are communicated with each other. The method includes: the monitor terminal sends a request to the monitor platform for acquiring the elevator data; the monitor platform sends the request to the elevator data field collection device through the wireless communication network; the elevator data field collection device sends the elevator field data to the monitor platform through the wireless communication network; the monitor platform sends data to the monitor terminal through internet; when the elevator breaks down, the monitor platform sends data to the monitor terminal and the hand-held or vehicle-mounted interface device. The field data of the elevator can be directly acquired on internet according to the invention, thereby the remote monitor and management of the elevator are realized, without the limitation of the field wiring and elevator space position.

The invention discloses a wireless routing-inspection system and a routing-inspection management method. The system comprises passive radio frequency cards arranged on fixed points, intelligent mobile terminals and a system platform, wherein each intelligent mobile terminal comprises an NFC module and a control module, each NFC module is used for collecting ID codes of the corresponding passive radio frequency card, each control module is used for receiving the collected ID codes, generating routing-inspection information and sending the routing-inspection information to the system platform, and the system platform outputs the routing-inspection information in real time. According to the wireless routing-inspection system and the routing-inspection management method, front-end field work information collection is conducted through the intelligent mobile terminals, information transmission is conducted through a GPRS / WIFI network, the system is simple in configuration, real-time routing-inspection supervision without distance limit is achieved, meanwhile, wiring is not demanded, and the disadvantages that wiring is large in work amount and high in cost are improved.

A communication protocol in a wireless network of a transceiver and a plurality of devices, in which at least one device is a bidirectional device, and in which one or more other devices can be unidirectional devices. The unidirectional device communicates with the transceiver in a unidirectional mode from the device to the transceiver and the bidirectional device communicates with the transceiver either in a bidirectional mode or in an unidirectional mode from the device to the transceiver. The communication protocol is configured to determine which transmission mode is to be used for each device. Various techniques are provided in order to optimize the time and energy spent to transmit information from one peer to the other.

A disk drive includes a disk, a head, a coarse actuator, a microactuator, and a servo controller. The microactuator positions the head relative to the disk. The coarse actuator positions the microactuator and the head relative to the disk. The servo controller controls the microactuator in accordance with a microactuator feedforward control signal that is provided by the servo controller based on a plurality of microactuator feedforward values. The servo controller tunes at least one microactuator feedforward value of the plurality of microactuator feedforward values. The servo controller scales the microactuator feedforward control signal in accordance with a microactuator feedforward gain, and the servo controller adjusts the microactuator feedforward gain based on a position error signal that is determined during a seek operation.

A method, system and computer program for transferring packets between devices connected to a PCI-Express bus of a computer. A selected pair of devices, such as for example a root complex device and an endpoint device or a pair of endpoint devices, connected to the PCI-Express bus, are configured to transmit / receive data with their respective maximum payload size (MPS). A packet, such as for example a read completion packet, a write memory packet or a message request packet, can then be transmitted from the source device to the destination device. If the source device MPS exceeds the destination device MPS, the packet can be divided into a plurality of sub-packets. Each of sub packets has a maxmimum payload size based on the MPS of the destination device. The sub-packets can then be transmitted to the destination device so that the packet can be delivered to the destination device.

Apparatus, and an associated method, for facilitating communication of encoded data, formed of a systematic part and a non-systematic part, in a radio communication system. Systematic parts of the encoded data are assigned by an assignor to transmit antennas that are associated with communication channels exhibiting better, or best, communication quality levels. Determinations are made of communication conditions to rank the transmit antennas, thereby permit appropriate assignments of the encoded data to transmit antennas. Feedback is provided by the receiver that receives the transmitted data. The feedback information includes, or is formed responsive to, detections and other measurements at the receivers.

A method of operating a mobile service comprising the steps of receiving a first request via the World Wide Web or WAP to create said mobile service, said first request comprising instructions to modify a mobile service template, creating said mobile service from said instructions and said template, receiving a second request to execute said mobile service, said second request comprising an access number and delivered via a text message communication device having an MSISDN, determining said mobile service from a reference table comprising said MSISDN and said access number, and executing said mobile service.

A protocol data unit switching implements switching means used for the selective interconnection of a transmitter port and at least one receiver port selected from among at least two receiver ports by means of at least one internal bus, each of the protocol data units being constituted by at least one piece of elementary data. The switching implements a synchronization mechanism defining time slots, known as connection cycles, on at least one of said internal buses; a mechanism for the allocation of at least one of said connection cycles to each of the selected receiver ports; and a mechanism for the writing of at least one piece of elementary data in the allocated connection cycle or cycles so as to enable the broadcasting of elementary data to said selected receiver ports.

A file backup system, method and computer program product connects an account user's computer to a remote, secure, redundant system computer via the Internet. The system operates to copy selected data between the account user's computer and the system computer including, documents, music files, image files, and email in any file type or format. The system is compatible with all types of computers, including personal data assistants and mobile telephones, and all types of operating systems. The account user can view and download data from any computer, including PDA's and mobile telephones. If the user's computer fails for any reason, the copied data can be restored to a new or repaired computer or storage device. All of the software to operate the system is resident on the system computer with no hardware or software required on the account user computer beyond a conventional web browser. Further, the account user can access the backup data from any computer from any location, such as home or office. The system also contains a scheduler, a contacts manager, a reminder generator and file transfer system for third-party users.

A system for progressively synchronizing stored copies of indexed media transmitted between nodes on a network. The system includes a transmitter at the sending node configured to progressively transmit available indexed media to a receiving node with a packet size and packetization interval sufficient to enable the near real-time rendering of the indexed media, wherein the near real-time rendering of the indexed media provides a recipient with an experience of reviewing the transmitted media live. The system also includes a receiver at the receiving node that progressively receives the transmitted indexed media and continually notes any indexed media that is not already locally stored at the receiving node. The receiver also continually generates and transmits to the sending node requests as needed for the noted indexed media. In response, the transmitter at the sending node transmits the noted indexed media to the receiving node. Both the sending node and the receiving node have storage elements configured to store the indexed media respectively. As a result, both the sending node and the receiving node each have synchronized copies of the indexed media.

The present invention provides a method for transmitting a wireless receipt to a personal digital device. A cash resister determines that a customer with a personal digital device wants a wireless receipt transmitted to the personal digital device. The cash register determines the wireless protocol that the personal digital device utilizes. The cash register then transmits the wireless receipt to the personal digital device utilizing the wireless protocol.