Granted Patent B2

US 12,741,090 · App. 18/192,380 · Granted Sep 22, 2026

Inventors: Joon Bok Lee (Acton, MA); Yibin Zheng (Hartland, WI); Jason O'Connor (Acton, MA); Ashutosh Zade (San Diego, CA); James Causey (Simi Valley, CA)

Assignee: INSULET CORPORATION

A61M5/172A61M2205/50

Abstract

Claims (27)

1 . A drug delivery system, comprising:

a processor coupled to a communication interface; and

a plurality of components, each component having one or more modes of communication via a respective communication interface, the processor operable to:

establish a hierarchy of communication modes ordering the one or more communication modes from a highest tier to lowest tier;

attempt to establish an inter-component communication channel using the highest tier communication mode;

select a communication mode lower in the hierarchy upon failure of the communication mode in the hierarchy used in the attempt to establish the inter-component communication; and

re-attempt to establish the inter-component communication channel using the selected communication mode;

a cloud server, wherein the cloud server is configured to operate as a cloud server intermediary and operable to enable two components of the plurality of components to communicate with each other and exchange data via the cloud server.

2 . The system of claim 1 , wherein:

the one or more modes of communication includes Bluetooth, wherein Bluetooth is the highest tier communication mode of the one or more communication modes.

3 . The system of claim 1 , wherein various components of the plurality of components are configured differently from one another.

4 . The system of claim 1 , wherein:

one communication mode of the one or more modes of communication is Wi-Fi, and

one or more components of the plurality of component are configured with a Wi-Fi radio.

5 . The system of claim 4 , wherein a Wi-Fi communication between two components of the plurality of components is a peer-to-peer communication.

6 . The system of claim 5 , wherein one component of the plurality of components, comprises:

a processor, and

the processor of the one component of the plurality of components is operable to:

establish a Wi-Fi hotspot available to other components of the plurality of components.

7 . The system of claim 1 , wherein:

one communication mode of the one or more modes of communication is a cellular data connection; and

one or more components of the plurality of components are configured with a cellular radio and an activated SIM card.

8 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the two components of the plurality of components are operable to communicate with the cloud server via a Wi-Fi communication mode or a cellular communication mode.

9 . The system of claim 8 , wherein each of the two components of the plurality of components is operable to use a different communication mode to communicate to the cloud server.

10 . The system of claim 8 , wherein the two components automatically switch to a communication mode of the one or more modes of communication requiring less energy when battery power of either one of the two components is low.

11 . The system of claim 1 , wherein each component of the plurality of components is configured to:

automatically switch to a different mode of communication of the one or more modes of communication when necessary for maintenance of a communication channel.

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