System and method for displaying implantable medical device data

• US 20020154111A1
• Filed: 01/25/2002
• Published: 10/24/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 02/27/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Medtronic Incorporated (Medtronic Plc)
• Original Assignee: Medtronic Incorporated (Medtronic Plc)
• Inventors: Webb, James D.
• Granted Patent: US 6,943,787 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/418
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 1/0007 Image acquisition

Abstract

A system and method for displaying implantable medical device data that includes translating means for translating data written in a first predetermined format that is not compatible with SVG-formatted data into SVG-formatted data, and formatting means for receiving the SVG-formatted data and for providing a user-comprehensible representation of the SVG-formatted data. In this way, session data is converted from a first format to a second format, and the converted session data is rendered to enable multiple display and control of the converted session data so that the rendered data is displayed using the multiple display and layout control to provide a user with multiple display of a single set of session data.

Claims

1. A system for displaying implantable medical device session data, comprising:

translating means for translating data written in a first predetermined format that is not compatible with SVG-formatted data into SVG-formatted data; and

formatting means for receiving the SVG-formatted data and for providing a user-comprehensible representation of the SVG-formatted data.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the formatting means is means for rendering the SVG-formatted data into a web page.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the means for rending is an SVG browser plug-in.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the means for rending is an SVG display engine.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the translating means includes means for translating data from the first predetermined format into an XML format.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the translating means further includes an XML parser.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the XML parser is a web browser.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the formatting means includes a file for storing the SVG-formatted data.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the formatting means further includes a customer patient charting system for receiving and displaying the SVG-formatted data.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the formatting means includes a display device.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the formatting means includes a printing device.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein the translating means includes means for translating the data written in the first predetermined format directly into SVG-formatted data.

14. The system of claim 13, and further including means to translate the medical session data from a legacy format into the XML format, and to provide the translated data to the processing circuit.

15. The system of claim 13, and further including an information network coupled to provide the medical session data in the XML format to the processing circuit.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the information network includes translation means to translate the medical session data from a legacy format to the XML format.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the information network is coupled to one or more devices selected from the group consisting of in-home remote monitors (IRMs), extenders, programmers, and backend systems.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the first format is an XML format and the second format is an SVG format.

20. The method of claim 18, wherein the step of displaying includes re-sizing, zoomning, scrolling, use of calipers, and the moving of one of graphics and text portions of the display without the use of custom software.

13. A system to manage medical session data, comprising:

a processing circuit to convert the medical session data from an XML format to an SVG format; and

a device to utilize the medical session data translated into the SVG format to generate viewable data.

18. A method of displaying session data in an implantable medical device system, comprising the steps of:

converting the session data from a first format to a second format;

rendering the converted session data to enable multiple display and control of the converted session data; and

displaying the rendered data using the multiple display and layout control to provide a user with multiple display of a single set of session data.