US 12,068,075 B2
Method for initiating a data transfer from an implantable medical device
James Horton, Portland, OR (US); Hans-Juergen Wildau, Berlin (DE); Juergen Koeppel, Parsdorf (DE); Uwe Kamenz, Berlin (DE); Thomas Trenz, Berlin (DE); Enrico Stephan, Berlin (DE); Thomas Spiller, Berlin (DE); and Thorsten Wenzlaff, Berlin (DE)
Assigned to BIOTRONIK SE & Co. KG, Berlin (DE)
Appl. No. 17/284,254
Filed by BIOTRONIK SE & Co. KG, Berlin (DE)
PCT Filed Sep. 23, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/075486
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 9, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/083585, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 30, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/750,833, filed on Oct. 26, 2018.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2019 105 801.5 (DE), filed on Mar. 7, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0383922 A1, Dec. 9, 2021
Int. Cl. A61N 1/37 (2006.01); A61N 1/372 (2006.01); G16H 40/63 (2018.01); G16H 40/67 (2018.01)
CPC G16H 40/67 (2018.01) [A61N 1/37252 (2013.01); G16H 40/63 (2018.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for initiating a data transfer from an implantable medical device, comprising:
generating a relay data request at a remote device, the relay data request containing an implant interrogation request representing a request for the implantable medical device to create an interrogation data set,
transferring the relay data request to a patient device,
establishing a communication link between the patient device and the implantable medical device to transmit said implant interrogation request to the implantable medical device,
transferring an implant interrogation response from the implantable medical device to the patient device, the implant interrogation response representing a response from the implantable medical device containing said interrogation data set, and
transferring the implant interrogation response from the patient device to the remote device,
wherein the patient device, upon receiving the implant interrogation response, establishes a communication connection to the remote device and forwards the implant interrogation response to the remote device.