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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 05, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 10, 2001
Hans Abrahamson, Stockholm, SE;
St. Jude Medical AB, Järfälla, SE;
Abstract
In a medical communication system and method adapted to perform communication between two units, at least one of said units being adapted to be implanted in a human or animal body, having one active channel among a number of communication channels, all of the communication channels are monitored. All channels not presently used for communication between the units, called passive channels, are continuously monitored by the concurrently with the performed communication and the result of this monitoring is stored in a register table provided with one register for each communication channel, the stored information identifying if a channel is available for communication usage.