Patent ID: 11871463
Assignee: PACESETTER, INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC H  A | IPC A  H

Claim 0:
1. A method for managing communications between an external instrument (EI) and an implantable medical device (IMD) in accordance with a communications protocol having a base scanning schedule that defines scanning windows over a scanning state, the method comprising:
entering the scanning state, for at least one of the IMD or the EI, during which a receiver scans for advertisement notices during the scanning windows;
automatically restarting the scanning state to form a pseudo-scanning schedule that differs from the base scanning schedule; and
establishing a communication session between the IMD and the EI, wherein the base scanning schedule corresponds to a Bluetooth connection schedule, and wherein the scan reset pattern causes the pseudo-scanning schedule to have a higher duty cycle than a duty cycle corresponding to the Bluetooth connection schedule.