Configurable medical telemetry radio system
First Claim
1. 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; and
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.
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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.
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20 Claims
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1. A system including an external medical data telemetry device to communicate with an implantable medical device (IMD), the external medical data telemetry device comprising:
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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; and 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. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. An external medical data telemetry device comprising:
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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; and 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.
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