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US 2014/0111353 A1Published application
Modular patient communicator for use in life critical network
AssigneeCardiac Pacemakers, Inc.
InventorsJim Sievert, William R. Mass
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AssigneeCardiac Pacemakers, Inc.
InventorsJim Sievert, William R. Mass
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A modular patient communicator provides for communications with a patient implantable medical device (PIMD) and connectivity with a central authority (CA) via an unsecured network. Medical firmware and a radio facilitate wireless interrogation of the PIMD and acquisition of PIMD data. A universal communications port facilitates mechanical and signal connectivity with one or a multiplicity of disparate detachable modules, some of which provide the communicator with an external communications facility and have disparate communication protocols. The communicator is devoid of an external communications facility other than the radio and universal communications port. Life critical network software is executed in cooperation with an attached module to cause the communicator to transmit a request to a network access facility for a connection to the unsecured network, authenticate the communicator to the CA, and facilitate secured communication between the communicator and CA upon successful communicator authentication.
A modular communicator for communicating with physiological sensors comprising:
The modular communicator of claim 22, the processor is configured to communicatively couple to the network access facility through short range wireless communication by executing program instructions from at least one mechanically engaged module of the plurality of disparate modules.
The modular communicator of claim 22, wherein the processor is configured to communicatively couple to the network access facility through long range wireless communication by executing program instructions from at least one mechanically engaged module of the plurality of disparate modules.
The modular communicator of claim 22, wherein the processor is configured to execute at least two different communication protocols to communicatively couple to at least two different network access facilities through at least one mechanically engaged module of the plurality of disparate modules.
The modular communicator of claim 22, wherein the communicator is configured to couple to a host system via the universal communications port and is configured to cooperate with the host system to effect connectivity to a life critical network and a central authority via a communications facility of the host system.
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The modular communicator of claim 22, wherein at least one of the plurality of modules is configured to include memory for storing communicator data at least for times during which communicator and central authority connectivity is not present or possible.
A method for communicating with a physiological sensor comprising:
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.