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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 1998
Filed:
Feb. 07, 1997
Yves Faisandier, Paris, FR;
ELA Medical S.A., Montrouge, FR;
Abstract
A system and methods for the automatic update of the software of an external programmer implant is that is used to program and configure an active implantable medical device implant and acquire data obtained by the implant. The programmer comprises software composed of an assembly of software objects. The implant comprises a memory containing parametric data for the functioning of the implant and an assembly of software objects necessary for the functioning of the programmer in connection with the aforementioned of parametric data. The programmer and the implant communicate bi-directionally. The automatic updating preferably occurs by the programmer reading of the memory of the implant, establishing a list of objects that are found in the implant with their respective versions, comparing the list to the objects (and their versions) that are in the programmer software, downloading from the implant of those objects which are not found in the programmer software and adding these objects to the programmer software; and/or downloading from the implant those objects in the programmer software whose version is prior to the version of the object found in the implant, and to replace the programmer software objects, with the more current version.