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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 20, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2015
St. Jude Medical Luxembourg Holdings Smi S.a.r.l. (“sjm Lux Smi”), Luxembourg, LU;
April C. Pixley, Los Altos, CA (US);
Cary W R Campbell, Montpelier, VA (US);
Steven T. Brandon, Ben Lomond, CA (US);
ST. JUDE MEDICAL LUXEMBOURG HOLDINGS SMI S.A.R.L., Luxembourg, LU;
Abstract
Certain embodiments described herein enable a base station (BS) and a medical device (MD) to establish a radio frequency (RF) link using any one of a plurality of different RF channels. The MD sniffs the RF channels over which a BS may send a link request, and tunes to the RF channel identified, as a result of the sniffing, as the channel over which a BS may be transmitting a link request. The MD may also demodulate a signal received over the RF channel to which the MD is tuned, and determine, based on a portion of the demodulated signal including a channel identifier, a specific one of the RF channels over which a BS is actually transmitting. This enables the MD to change the channel to which it is tuned if it determines that it is not tuned to the RF channel over which a BS is actually transmitting.