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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 1998
Filed:
Dec. 10, 1996
Gregory Charles Bevan, Canyon Country, CA (US);
Pacesetter, Inc., Sylmar, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus for identifying implantable cardiac devices are provided. Cardiac devices are classified as belonging to one of various device families, each of which may use a different communications protocol to communicate with an implantable cardiac device programmer. The family identification times anticipated for establishing a communications channel between the programmer and implantable cardiac devices in various device families are stored by the programmer. In addition, the programmer maintains a record of the implantable cardiac device families with which it has successfully communicated. The programmer identifies implantable cardiac devices based on the family identification time and record information, which reduces the amount of time necessary to complete family identification.