Integrated Web Server for Portable Medical Device Software Delivery
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing emergency medical devices face challenges in software distribution and management across different hardware and software platforms, requiring separate development efforts and manual installation, with difficulties in tracking user versions and synchronizing upgrades.
Innovation Solution
Embedding a web application server in the medical device to automatically deliver software applications to user devices, ensuring compatibility and seamless updates across platforms, and enabling automatic installation and version control.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If separate device application software is distributed for each target hardware and software platform, then the medical device can be accessed and controlled on multiple platforms, but the development complexity and maintenance burden increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal web-based software architecture that allows a single medical device to be accessed and controlled through web browsers on multiple different platforms (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, iOS, Android, Windows Mobile) without requiring separate native applications for each platform. The device serves multiple platform-specific functions through a single unified web interface, eliminating the need for platform-specific software development while maintaining broad adaptability.
2Ease of operation
If manual software installation and distribution is used, then users can install device application software on their personal computers, but tracking user versions and synchronizing upgrades becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements an automated software update system where the medical device automatically detects the user's computing platform, delivers the appropriate web-based software version, and tracks installation status. The system provides feedback loops that monitor which users have which versions of software, enabling automatic synchronization of upgrades across all users without manual intervention. This eliminates version tracking problems by maintaining centralized control over software distribution and update status.
3Reliability
If device application software is distributed separately for each platform, then each platform can have optimized software, but maintenance and upgrades require careful synchronization across all platforms
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges all platform-specific software maintenance into a single unified web-based system. Instead of maintaining separate software versions for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, iOS, Android, and Windows Mobile, the system combines all these platform interactions into one web application that runs universally. This eliminates the time-consuming task of synchronizing updates across multiple platforms, as a single codebase serves all users regardless of their computing device, while still providing platform-optimized performance through the web browser interface.
Data Source
AI summary
Embodiments of the present invention include a portable medical device with an integrated web server. The portable medical device is configured to establish a communication session with a user device. The integrated web server is configured to load software onto the user computing device for exchanging data with the portable medical device.