Wireless communication system
View Patent ↗A wireless communication system includes a first device having a communications control circuit configured to initiate transmission of a wireless communication signal, and a second device including a communication interface circuit and a number of other circuits. The communication interface circuit may be responsive to the wireless communication signal to provide information carried by the wireless communication signal to at least one of the other circuits. Alternatively or additionally, the communication interface circuit may be responsive to the wireless communication signal to receive information specified by the wireless communication signal from at least one of the other circuits and to transmit another wireless communication signal carrying the retrieved information back to the first device. In either case, the communication interface circuit is unresponsive to control thereof by any of the number of other circuits. The communications control circuit controls all wireless communication between the first and second devices.
1. A wireless communication system comprising:
a first device having a communications control circuit configured to initiate transmission of a wireless communication signal and a wireless communication circuit coupled to the communications control circuit, and
a second device having a communication interface circuit coupled to a data interface circuit, the communication interface circuit responsive to the wireless communication signal to convert at least a portion of the wireless communication signal to a command signal, the command signal corresponding to one of a command to provide information carried by the wireless communication signal to the data interface circuit and a command to receive information specified by the wireless communication signal from the data interface circuit, wherein, if the command signal corresponds to a command to receive information specified by the wireless communication signal from the data interface circuit, the communication interface circuit is configured to receive the information specified by the wireless communication signal from the data interface circuit and transmit the received information back to the first device,
wherein the communications control circuit controls all wireless communication between the first and second devices via control of the wireless communication circuit,
and wherein the wireless communication circuit includes a first wireless interface and the communication interface circuit includes a second wireless interface,
and wherein the wireless communication between the first and second devices occurs via a wireless communication path established between the first and second wireless interfaces.
2. The wireless communication system of claim 1 wherein the first wireless interface includes a first inductive interface and the second wireless interface includes a second inductive interface configured to inductively couple to the first inductive interface, the wireless communication path being established via the inductively coupled first and second inductive interfaces.
3. The wireless communication system of claim 1 wherein the first wireless interface includes a first radio frequency (RF) antenna and the second inductive interface includes a second RF antenna, the wireless communication path being an RF communication path.
4. The wireless communication system of claim 1 wherein the first wireless interface includes a first infrared (IR) interface and the second wireless interface includes a second IR interface, the wireless communication path being an IR communication path.
5. The wireless communication system of claim 1 wherein the first wireless interface includes a first acoustic interface and the second wireless interface includes a second acoustic interface, the wireless communication path being an acoustic communication path.
6. The wireless communication system of claim 1 wherein the first wireless interface includes a first conductive interface configured to be coupled to a biological body and the second wireless interface includes a second conductive interface configured to be coupled to the biological body, the wireless communication path being the biological body between the first and second conductive interfaces.
7. The wireless communication system of claim 1 wherein the first device is an ambulatory medical device for providing a treatment to a body of a patient or monitoring a state of the body, and the second device is a remote communication device.
8. The wireless communication system of claim 7 wherein the ambulatory medical device is configured to administer insulin to the body of the patient.
9. The wireless communication system of claim 1 wherein the first device is a communication device and the second device is an ambulatory medical device for providing a treatment to a body of a patient or monitoring a state of the body.
10. The wireless communication system of claim 9 wherein the ambulatory medical device is configured to administer insulin to the body of the patient.