SECURE AUTOMATIC CONFIGURATION OF EQUIPMENT THROUGH REPLICATION

• Main Authors: VAUGHN BRAD L, ANAND RAHUL, CHEN TAO, MARSH GENE WESLEY, GUO JIN, SINGH NAVRINA B, DOROBA JOSEPH, CHEN JEN MEI, ZHANG JIANG
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 07.08.2015
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS, i.e. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONTECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE HANDLING ORPROCESSING OF MEDICAL OR HEALTHCARE DATA; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTEDFOR SPECIFIC APPLICATION FIELDS; PHYSICS

Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques and apparatus for secure automatic configuration of equipment through replication. One example method generally includes receiving a request for configuration information used to configure at least a first device to be replicated in at least a second device; and communicating the configuration information to the second device in response to the request. At least one of the first and second wireless devices may be a medical device and/or the configuration information may include patient treatment information. In this manner the amount of configuration data entry by a caregiver and the number of errors in this configuration data are most likely considerably reduced. Furthermore in an emergency a common medical treatment may be easily configured for many patients at once (i.e. the configuration information may be easily replicated from patient device to patient device).