Configurable medical telemetry radio system
AssigneeCardiac Pacemakers, Inc.
InventorsGreg Carpenter, Joseph E. Bánge, Peter J. Musto, William R. Mass, Jonathan Hedstrom
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Abstract
A system including an external medical data telemetry device to communicate with an implantable medical device (IMD). The external medical data telemetry device includes a processor, a reconfigurable radio-frequency (RF) transceiver circuit, at least one far-field antenna, and a user interface. The reconfigurable RF transceiver circuit modulates an outgoing IMD data signal and demodulates an incoming IMD data signal using a modulation type that is selectable from a plurality of modulation types by the processor. The processor selects the modulation type using information entered by a user through the user interface.
Claims20
A system including an external medical data telemetry device to communicate with an implantable medical device (IMD), the external medical data telemetry device comprising:
- a processor;
- a reconfigurable far field radio-frequency (RF) transceiver circuit, operable to modulate an outgoing IMD data signal and to demodulate an incoming IMD data signal using at least one modulation type that is selectable from a plurality of configurable far field RF modulation types by the processor;
- at least one far-field antenna, in electrical communication with the reconfigurable RF transceiver circuit, the far field antenna for RF wireless communication with an IMD using the RF modulation technique;
- a reconfigurable protocol layer configured to determine, according to a protocol driver, content and order of bytes of data for far field RF communication with the IMD, wherein the protocol driver is one of a plurality of protocol drivers loadable from memory that implement different byte-level protocols;
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- a user interface, in electrical communication with the processor, wherein the processor selects the far field RF modulation type and protocol driver using information entered by a user.
An external medical data telemetry device comprising:
- means for receiving an input into the external telemetry device;
- means for identifying an implantable medical device (IMD) type using the input;
- means for selecting at least one far-field radio frequency (RF) modulation type from a plurality of configurable far field RF modulation types selectable in the external telemetry device using the IMD type;
- means for reconfiguring a transceiver in the external telemetry device according to the selected modulation type;
- means for loading and configuring a byte-level RF communication protocol from among a plurality of memory stored byte-level RF communication protocols using the IMD type;
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- means for modulating or demodulating one or more data signals outgoing or incoming to an IMD, using the external telemetry device and the selectable far field RF modulation type.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.