West Affum Holdings Corp.

West Affum Holdings Dac

Sightpas LLC

Dusan Beblavy

Erick Michael Roane

David Peter Finch

Zoie R Engman

Steven E Sjoquist

Jonathan Paul Niegowski

Erik L Schneider

Martin Pribula

Peter Curila

Martin Kolesár

Jan Hricko

Marcel Majernik

Colleen K Hendry

John Luongo

Disclosed are embodiments directed to security methods applied to connections between components in a distributed (networked) system including medical and non-medical devices, providing secure authentication, authorization, patient and device data transfer, and patient data association and privacy for components of the system.

Permission-based control of interfacing components with a medical device

A wearable cardioverter defibrillator (WCD) system includes a processor, a memory, a wireless communication module (DWCM), and an NFC tag that stores information for how an accessing device may access the DWCM wirelessly. An accessing device such as a defibrillator configurator with an NFC reader may read the NFC tag of the WCD system, if it has adequate permission to do so. Upon so reading, the accessing device will know how to address the DWCM wirelessly, and thus install or update configuration data, software updates, or request memory downloads from operations. The use of the NFC tag requires close proximity, which hampers both inadvertently programming the wrong WCD system, plus a WCD system being attacked maliciously.

Wearable cardioverter defibrillator (WCD) system using security NFC tag for requests of data from memory

An exemplary central system is configured to receive and store data from a registered device passing through an entryway of a restricted site, in a manner that permits the detection of unauthorized entry into the restricted site. A beacon broadcasts a beacon signal which prompts the registered device to transmit an active device ID and an active location ID to the central system, a sensor detects movement approaching the entryway and notifies the central system, and a camera captures an image of a region encompassing the entryway. The central system is configured to, among other things, receive the notification, communicate a control signal to the camera to capture the image, receive and store the image from the camera, cross-reference the active location ID with a registered location ID, and cross-reference the active device ID with registered device IDs. The entryway may have a barrier or may be barrierless.

Managing access to a restricted site with a barrier and/or barrierless and detecting entry

Wearable cardioverter defibrillator (WCD) system using security NFC tag for uploading configuration data

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Kosice, Slovakia

Dusan Beblavy