Nishant Srivastava;Curtis A. Knight;Allan R. Schwartz
发明人:
Nishant Srivastava,Allan R. Schwartz,Curtis A. Knight
申请号：
US13246575
公开号：
US09108065B2
申请日:
2011.09.27
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2015
代理人:
摘要：
Dynamically switching between different external RF transceivers for communication with an implantable medical device maintains high communication quality in the face of interference, fading, detuning, or other adverse wireless communication conditions. Quality information associated with communications between an implantable medical device and different external devices is monitored to select one of these external devices to conduct subsequent communication with the implantable medical device. This monitoring is conducted on a repeated basis such that communication is switched to a different RF transceiver whenever such an RF transceiver is able to achieve a higher quality communication than the currently selected RF transceiver. In some embodiments, RF transceivers are deployed in different devices. For example, one or more RF transceivers may be deployed at a portable programmer (e.g., in the form of a computer tablet) and one or more other RF transceivers may be deployed at an associated base station.
