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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 13, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 16, 2013
Pacesetter, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Yongjian Wu, Saratoga, CA (US);
Jun Yang, Valencia, CA (US);
Balakrishnan Shankar, Oxnard, CA (US);
Chao-Wen Young, Cupertino, CA (US);
Reza Shahandeh, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);
Pacesetter, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A method is provided for a bridge device to interface between an external device and an implantable medical device ('IMD'), the bridge device includes a system on a chip ('SoC') having a memory, an input/output interface, a standard wireless computer network (“SWCN”) controller and a bridge controller integrated into a single integrated circuit (“IC”). The method includes configuring the bridge controller to convert data between a Medical Implant Communication Service (MICS) protocol and a SWCN protocol, coupling a MICS controller to the SoC, and configuring the MICS controller to manage operation of a first transceiver based on the MICS protocol. The method includes configuring the SWCN controller to manage operation of a second transceiver based on the SWCN protocol, communicating between the bridge device and an IMD utilizing the first transceiver, and communicating between the bridge device and an external device utilizing the second transceiver.