Medical data transport over wireless life critical network employing dynamic communication link mapping

US9848058B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc. · US

Inventors

• David C. Johnson · Inver Grove Heights, US
• Jim Sievert · Shoreview, US
• Kenneth P. Hoyme · Plymouth, US
• John LaLonde · Lake Elmo, US
• William R. Mass · Minneapolis, US
• David V. Duccini · Windom, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 18, 2008
• Grant date: Dec 19, 2017
• Expiry date: Sep 18, 2033

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04W4/50
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A portable source medical device determines communication links of a network presently available to effect communications with a target component when the source medical device is at each of a multiplicity of geographical locations. A profile is generated comprising information about each available communication link and attributes associated with each available communication link for each geographical location. When the source medical device is at a particular geographical location, a profile associated with the particular geographical location is accessed and a network connection is established between the source medical device and the target component using a communication link associated with the particular profile. Medical information is transferred between the source medical device and the target component via the communication link associated with the particular profile.