Patent ID: 11896831
Assignee: PACESETTER, INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  G  H | IPC A  G  H

Claim 20:
21. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium for enabling an implantable medical device (IMD) to establish a communication session with an external instrument (EI) using a wireless communication protocol, the computer readable storage medium comprising instructions to:
transmit an advertisement notice in accordance with an advertising schedule during an advertising state, wherein the advertising schedule defines a temporal pattern for transmitting instances of the advertisement notice;
scan one or more channels for a connection request from the EI following the transmitting of the advertisement notice;
determine whether a valid connection request was received by the IMD from the EI within a specified interval following the advertisement notice being transmitted;
repeat the transmit and the scan during the advertising state, in response to a valid connection request not being received by the IMD, from the EI, within the specified interval following the advertisement notice being transmitted;
determine a duration of the advertising state exceeds a predetermined threshold without a valid connection request being received by the IMD from the EI; and
change the advertising schedule and transmit the advertisement notice in accordance with the advertising schedule as changed, in response to the duration of the advertising state exceeding the predetermined threshold without a valid connection request being received by the IMD from the EI, wherein the advertising schedule as changed defines a different temporal pattern for transmitting instances of the advertisement notice.