Appeal No. 2005-0860
Application No. 09/363,728
circuitry to prevent overcharging.
4. A method of managing data for a plurality of analyte
test instruments connected to a data communication network
comprising the steps of:
detecting via a host computer the connection of each analyte
test instrument of said plurality of analyte test instruments to
the data communication network, each of said analyte test
instruments of said plurality of analyte test instruments
including a test strip port, which accepts test strips for
determining the level of analyte in a sample taken from a
patient;
uploading data received from each analyte test instrument of
said plurality of analyte test instruments to the host computer;
and
processing the uploaded data on the host computer for
operator review; and downloading configuration data from the host
computer to each analyte test instrument of said plurality of
analyte test instruments, the downloaded data comprising
instrument-specific setup and control data.
THE PRIOR ART
The references relied on by the examiner to support the
final rejection are:
Davis (Davis ‘943) 5,052,943 Oct. 01, 1991
Cheung et al. (Cheung) 5,074,977 Dec. 24, 1991
Brown 5,307,263 Apr. 26, 1994
Koenck et al. (Koenck) 5,324,925 Jun. 28, 1994
Bocker et al. (Bocker) 5,507,288 Apr. 16, 1996
Cargin, Jr. et al. 5,602,456 Feb. 11, 1997
(Cargin)
Davis et al. 5,828,966 Oct. 27, 1998
(Davis ‘966)
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