Caire Inc.

Systech Computer Corporation

Terrell Lee Rodman

Peter S Armstrong

Donald G Armerding

Paul LaRoy Edwards

Ronald F Richard

Ningda Andy Dai

Patrick T Bird

William B Beal

Billy A Oostra

Alan J Izzo

Disclosed are methods, systems, apparatus, and products, including a method for operating a respiratory care device that includes collecting at a respiratory care device data representative of operation of the respiratory care device, and communicating to a computing-based device external to the respiratory care device at least some of the collected data to control the operability of the respiratory care device. In some embodiments, the method may further include communicating to the respiratory care device data to controllably change one or more operation parameters of the respiratory care device to cause a change in the operation of the respiratory care device, changing the operation parameters of the respiratory care device according to the communicated data, and communicating to the external computing-based device resultant data representative of operation of the respiratory care device resulting from the controllable change to the one or more operation parameters.

Controlling and communicating with respiratory care devices

A host computer is coupled to a plurality of peripheral devices through a single parallel port in the host computer. A terminal adapter connected to the host computer parallel port includes a plurality of ports for connection to the plurality of peripheral devices. A host interface memory in the host computer receives control structures containing control and status information and data for peripheral device operation from device drivers in the host computer. The host interface memory buffers the control structures and a port interface operating through the host and terminal adapter parallel ports transports the control structures from the host computer to the terminal adapter. In the terminal adapter, a terminal adapter interface memory holds a mirror image of the contents of the host memory and the terminal interface accesses the terminal adapter interface memory to obtain control data structures which are used to operate the peripheral devices.

System and method for coupling a plurality of peripheral devices to a

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Carlsbad, CA, United States of America

Terrell Lee Rodman