Global App Configuration for User-Specific Medical Device Compliance
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Solution Overview
Problem
Maintaining and provisioning different versions of the same application for varying user specifications, such as location, regulatory approvals, and user preferences, leads to resource inefficiency, increased maintenance complexity, and potential errors due to multiple codebases and application binaries.
Innovation Solution
A global configuration service (GCS) provides a unified collection of application assets, mapping user specifications to a subset of assets for configuring the application on user devices, eliminating the need for multiple binaries and codebases.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple versions of the application are maintained for different user specifications, then user-specific compliance and customization are improved, but storage resource efficiency and maintenance complexity deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple application versions into a single unified application binary that contains all features. Instead of maintaining separate binaries for different user specifications (Type 1 diabetes, Type 2 diabetes, different locations), the system combines all functionality into one binary and uses configuration files to enable or disable specific features based on user needs. This significantly reduces storage space requirements while maintaining the ability to comply with different user specifications.
Solution Approach 2:
The unified application binary is designed to be universal and multi-functional, capable of serving multiple user types and specifications. The single binary contains all features needed for different diabetes types, locations, and user preferences, with a configuration system that activates only the relevant features for each user. This eliminates the need to create and maintain multiple specialized versions of the application.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple versions of the application are maintained for different user specifications, then user-specific compliance and customization are improved, but maintenance complexity and error potential during updates deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple application versions into a single unified application binary that contains all features. Instead of maintaining separate binaries for different user specifications (Type 1 diabetes, Type 2 diabetes, different locations), the system combines all functionality into one binary and uses configuration files to enable or disable specific features based on user needs. This significantly reduces storage space requirements while maintaining the ability to comply with different user specifications.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses configuration files with parameters that define which features are enabled or disabled based on user specifications. By changing configuration parameters rather than maintaining separate codebases, the system can adapt to different user needs (Type 1 vs Type 2 diabetes, different locations) without creating multiple application versions. This simplifies maintenance as updates only need to be applied to the single binary and configuration files.
3Reliability
If use-case specific applications are designed for each specific goal and user set, then application functionality and regulatory compliance are improved, but device complexity and user selection difficulty deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The unified application binary is designed to be universal and multi-functional, capable of serving multiple user types and specifications. The single binary contains all features needed for different diabetes types, locations, and user preferences, with a configuration system that activates only the relevant features for each user. This eliminates the need to create and maintain multiple specialized versions of the application.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses configuration files with parameters that define which features are enabled or disabled based on user specifications. By changing configuration parameters rather than maintaining separate codebases, the system can adapt to different user needs (Type 1 vs Type 2 diabetes, different locations) without creating multiple application versions. This simplifies maintenance as updates only need to be applied to the single binary and configuration files.
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AI summary
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate generally to configuring applications used in conjunction with medical devices in order to help with monitoring and improving the patient's health. Certain aspects include a method including receiving a request for assets including access information associated with a user of a computing device, the access information including feature customization information for a health intervention application and being issued by an account management service for the health intervention application, and validating that the access information is valid. The method may also include responsive to the validating, generating configuration information identifying a set of assets with which the health intervention application is to be provisioned based, at least in part, on the feature customization information included in the access information, and transmitting the configuration information to the health intervention application to configure the health intervention application with the identified set of assets.