Systems, apparatus, methods and computer-readable storage media facilitating authorized telemetry with an implantable device

• US 10,086,208 B2
• Filed: 11/13/2015
• Issued: 10/02/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 02/27/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Medtronic Incorporated (Medtronic Plc)
• Original Assignee: Medtronic Incorporated (Medtronic Plc)
• Inventors: Hoffman, Matthew J., Wine, Nicholas C., Zhang, Bo
• Primary Examiner(s): Mahmood, Nadia A
• Application Number:
  US14/941,059
• Publication Number:
  US 20160250490A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,054 Days
• Field of Search: 607 60
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0006 ECG or EEG signals
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0031 Implanted circuitry
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0205 Simultaneously evaluating both cardiovascular conditions and different types of body conditions, e.g. heart and respiratory condition
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14551 for measuring blood gases
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/333 Recording apparatus specially adapted therefor
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7285 for synchronising or triggering a physiological measurement or image acquisition with a physiological event or waveform, e.g. an ECG signal A61B6/5205, A61B6/541, A61B8/5207, A61B8/543 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/362 Heart stimulators heart defibrillators A61N1/39
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/3629 in combination with non-electric therapy
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/37247 User interfaces, e.g. input or presentation means
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/37252 Details of algorithms or data aspects of communication system, e.g. handshaking, transmitting specific data or segmenting data
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/37254 Pacemaker or defibrillator security, e.g. to prevent or inhibit programming alterations by hackers or unauthorised individuals

Abstract

Techniques for facilitating authorized telemetry with an implantable device are provided. In one embodiment, for example, a method includes comparing, by a first device having a processor, first electronic information with second electronic information. The first electronic information is indicative of a first motion of a second device external to a body in which the implantable device is located, and the second electronic information is indicative of a second motion of the implantable device. The method also includes determining whether a defined level of correlation exists between the first electronic information and the second electronic information, and initiating a telemetry session between the second device and the implantable device based on a determination that the defined level of correlation exists between the first electronic information and the second electronic information.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

comparing, by a first device comprising a processor, first electronic information with second electronic information,

wherein the first electronic information describes a first image associated with a second device external to a body in which an implantable device is located, and

wherein the second electronic information describes a second image associated with the implantable device;

determining whether the first image matches the second image based on the comparing the first electronic information and the second electronic information; and

initiating a telemetry session between the second device and the implantable device based on a determination that the first image matches the second image.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

forgoing pairing the second device and the implantable device based on a determination that the first image and the second image fail to match one another.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the first electronic information is stored on the second device, and the second electronic information is stored on the implantable device.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the second device is communicatively coupled to a network, and wherein the first electronic information is accessible to the second device via the network.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the first image and the second image are indicative of one or more electronic images of a patient having the body in which the implantable device is located.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the second device comprises a camera and wherein the method further comprises:

receiving, by the first device, the first electronic information from the second device, wherein the first electronic information is generated by the camera of the second device.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the first device comprises the implantable device.

8. A method, comprising:

comparing, by a first device comprising a processor, first electronic information with second electronic information,

wherein the first electronic information is indicative of a first motion of a second device external to a body in which an implantable device is located, and

wherein the second electronic information is indicative of a second motion of the implantable device;

determining whether there is a defined level of similarity between the first motion and the second motion based on the comparing the first electronic information and the second electronic information; and

initiating a telemetry session between the second device and the implantable device based on a determination that there is a defined level of similarity between the first motion and the second motion.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

forgoing pairing the second device and the implantable device based on a determination that the defined level of similarity fails to exist between first motion and the second motion.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the first motion is associated with first acceleration of the second device and the second motion is associated with second acceleration of the implantable device, wherein the second device comprises a third device configured to measure the first acceleration of the second device, and wherein the implantable device comprises a fourth device configured to measure the second acceleration of the implantable device.

11. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

receiving the first electronic information from the second device.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein the first motion is associated with a first time period and the second motion is associated with a second time period, and wherein the first time period and the second time period are concurrent.

13. A method, comprising:

comparing, by a first device comprising a processor, first electronic information with second electronic information,

wherein the first electronic information is indicative of a speech signal recorded by a second device external to a body in which an implantable device is located, and

wherein the second electronic information is indicative of vibration information internal to the body and detected by the implantable device;

determining whether a defined level of correlation exists between the speech signal and the vibration information based on the comparing; and

initiating a telemetry session between the second device and the implantable device based on a determination that the defined level of correlation exists between the speech signal and the vibration information.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the speech signal is associated with a first time period and the vibration information is associated with a second time period, and wherein the first time period and the second time period are concurrent.

15. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

forgoing pairing the second device and the implantable device based on a determination that the defined level of correlation fails to exist between the speech signal and the vibration information.

16. The method of claim 13, wherein recordation by the second device is performed by a microphone of the second device.

17. The method of claim 13, wherein the vibration information is detected by an accelerometer of the implantable device.

18. A method, comprising:

comparing, by a first device comprising a processor, first electronic information received at a second device external to a body in which an implantable device is located with second electronic information associated with the implantable device, wherein the first electronic information comprises a first password received at a user interface of the second device from a user of the second device and the second electronic information comprises a second password;

determining whether the first password and the second password match; and

initiating a telemetry session between the second device and the implantable device based on a determination that the first password and the second password match.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the second device comprises a mobile telephone.

20. The method of claim 18, further comprising:

forgoing pairing the second device and the implantable device based on a determination that the first password and the second password fail to match.

21. The method of claim 18, wherein the second electronic information is stored in the implantable device.

22. A computer-readable storage medium storing executable instructions that, in response to execution, cause a first device comprising a processor to perform operations, comprising:

comparing first electronic information with second electronic information,

wherein the first electronic information is indicative of a speech signal recorded by a second device external to a body in which an implantable device is located, and

wherein the second electronic information is indicative of vibration information internal to the body and detected by the implantable device;

determining whether a defined level of correlation exists between the speech signal and the vibration information based on the comparing; and

initiating a telemetry session between the second device and the implantable device based on a determination that the defined level of correlation exists between speech signal and the vibration information.

23. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 22, wherein the speech signal is associated with a first time period and the vibration information is associated with a second time period, and wherein the first time period and the second time period are concurrent.

24. A computer-readable storage medium storing executable instructions that, in response to execution, cause a first device comprising a processor to perform operations, comprising:

comparing first electronic information with second electronic information,

wherein the first electronic information is indicative of morphology of a first aspect of a photoplethysmogram for a body in which an implantable device is located,

and wherein the second electronic information is indicative of a second aspect of the body and detected by the implantable device;

determining whether a defined level of correlation exists between the first aspect of a photoplethysmogram and the second aspect of the body; and

initiating a telemetry session between a second device and the implantable device based on a determination that the defined level of correlation exists between the first electronic information and the second electronic information.

25. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 24, wherein the implantable device comprises a pulse oximeter configured to detect the second aspect of the body.