Cycling event and auto-trigger memory handling

• US 7,058,442 B1
• Filed: 06/09/2000
• Issued: 06/06/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 06/10/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Icardia Healthcare Pty., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Medical Monitors Limited
• Inventors: Jankov, Vladimir, Platt, Harry Louis
• Primary Examiner(s): Pezzuto, Robert E.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Oropeza, Frances P.
• Application Number:
  US10/009,907
• Time in Patent Office: 2,188 Days
• Field of Search: 600/509, 600/522, 600/523
• US Class Current: 600/509
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/335 using integrated circuit memory devices

Abstract

A method for recording into a memory of a cardiac event recorder, in which the memory of the cardiac event recorder includes a manual trigger memory and an auto-trigger memory, with the auto-trigger memory being partitioned into a plurality of auto-trigger recording partitions, the method includes the steps of continuously recording signals, in the event of a manual trigger, acquired from the manual trigger or the auto-trigger in the manual trigger memory, and copying the signals acquired from the auto-trigger from the manual trigger memory to a partition of the auto-trigger memory.

Claims

1. A method for recording into a memory of a cardiac event recorder, said memory being subdivided into a manual trigger memory and an auto-trigger memory with said auto-trigger memory being partitioned into a plurality of auto-trigger recording partitions, said method comprising the steps of:

continuously recording signals acquired from a manual trigger or an auto-trigger in the manual trigger memory; and

,

copying said signals acquired from the auto-trigger from the manual trigger memory to a recording partition of said plurality of auto-trigger recording partitions of the auto-trigger memory.

2. The method for recording into a memory of a cardiac event recorder according to claim 1, wherein said step of continuously recording signals from said manual trigger or said auto-trigger is carried out in a cycling mode.

3. The method for recording into a memory of a cardiac event recorder according to claim 1, wherein said manual trigger memory stores at least two said signals acquired from said manual trigger.