COMMUNICATIONS IN A MEDICAL DEVICE SYSTEM

摘要

Systems and methods for communicating between medical devices. In one example, an implantable medical device comprises a communication module configured to receive commands from other medical devices, wherein the commands include a relative address and a command payload; a memory unit that stores a relative address and a unique identifier of the implantable medical device; a processing module coupled to the communication module and the memory unit, the processing module configured to: determine whether the relative address of a received command matches the relative address stored in the memory unit of the implantable medical device; if the relative address of the received command matches the relative address stored in the memory unit of the implantable medical device, execute the received command; and if the relative address of the received command does not match the relative address stored in the memory unit of the implantable medical device, ignore the received command.

主权项

1. A method of pairing a first implantable medical device and a second implantable medical device for communication as part of a medical device system, wherein the second implantable medical device stores a unique identifier, the method comprising:
transmitting a pairing command from the first implantable medical device, the pairing command including a plurality of fields including a relative address field for communicating a relative address value and a unique identifier field for communicating a serial number value; receiving the pairing command at the second implantable medical device, the second implantable medical device comparing the stored unique identifier of the second implantable medical device with the unique identifier value from the unique identifier field of the received pairing command; the second implantable medical device assigning the relative address value from the relative address field of the received pairing command to the second implantable medical device if the stored unique identifier of the second implantable medical device and the unique identifier value from the unique identifier field of the received pairing command match; and the second implantable medical device not assigning the relative address value from the relative address field of the received pairing command to the second implantable medical device if the stored unique identifier of the second implantable medical device and the unique identifier value from the unique identifier field of the received pairing command do not match.