Patent ID: 11964152
Assignee: ADVANCED NEUROMODULATION SYSTEMS, INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A

Claim 0:
1. A method of providing a neurostimulation therapy to a patient using a non-paresthesia stimulation pattern, the method comprising:
communicating one or more first control signals from a patient controller device to an implantable pulse generator to provide stimulation pulses for a regular mode of stimulation;
operating the implantable pulse generator, in response to the one or more first control signals, to apply stimulation pulses to a nerve tissue of the patient using the non-paresthesia stimulation pattern with interleaved stimulation-on intervals and stimulation-off intervals that correspond to a first cycling parameter for the regular mode of stimulation;
receiving patient input from the patient controller device to activate a bolus mode of stimulation, wherein the bolus mode of stimulation provides stimulation pulses of equal pulse amplitude, pulse width, and pulse repetition frequency as the regular mode of stimulation and only differs from the regular mode of stimulation by respective lengths of on-stimulation intervals and off-stimulation intervals, and wherein the patient controller device is configured to limit a number of episodes of the bolus mode of stimulation per day according to a clinician parameter;
communicating one or more second control signals from the patient controller device to the implantable pulse generator to provide stimulation pulses for the bolus mode of stimulation;
operating the implantable pulse generator, in response to the one or more second control signals, to apply stimulation pulses to the nerve tissue of the patient using the non-paresthesia stimulation pattern with interleaved stimulation-on intervals and stimulation-off intervals that correspond to a second cycling parameter for the bolus mode of stimulation, wherein the second cycling parameter provides greater relative provision of pulses of the non-paresthesia stimulation pattern than the first cycling parameter; and
displaying on a user interface of the patient controller device a graphical element that depicts an amount of time defining a time limit related to a current episode of the bolus mode of stimulation.