Reza Shahandeh,Richard Williamson,Gabriel A. Mouchawar,Brent Croft,William Winstrom,Robert McCormick,Jorge N. Amely-Velez,Thanh Tieu,Ali Dianaty,Samir Shah,Yongjian Wu
申请号：
US14091809
公开号：
US20150148868A1
申请日:
2013.11.27
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2015
代理人:
摘要：
A method is provided for establishing a communication session with an implantable medical device (“IMD”). The method includes configuring an IMD and an external device to communicate with one another through a protocol that utilizes a dedicated advertisement channel. The IMD periodically transmitting advertisement notices over the dedicated advertisement channel according to the protocol. The advertisement notices being transmitted periodically at an advertisement period over multiple cycles. The method further includes repeatedly scanning the advertisement channel, by the external device, for select scanning intervals in search of the advertisement notices, the scanning operation being repeated periodically at a scan period over the multiple cycles. The advertisement period and the scan period are independent of one another such that the advertisement and scan periods at least partially overlap intermittently after a number of cycles. When the external device detects one of the advertisement notices, the method includes establishing a communications link between the external device and the IMD.
