Method and System for Providing a Fault Tolerant Display Unit in an Electronic Device

Abstract

Method and apparatus for providing a fault tolerant display unit for an electronic device such as a glucose meter, including display unit, and a controller unit operatively coupled to the display unit, the controller unit configured to control the display unit to display an information, where when a failure mode of the display unit occurs, the display unit is configured to display a modified information, where the modified information is different from the information for display under the control of the controller unit, is provided.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A method of providing display fault tolerance in an electronic device, comprising the steps of:
 receiving one or more commands to display an information on a display unit;   detecting a failure mode associated with the display unit; and   displaying a modified information on the display unit associated with the detected failure mode.