Patent ID: 11883176
Assignee: THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A  H

Claim 17:
18. A method for operating electrocardiogram sensor, comprising:
processing a signal comprising cardiac electrical activity received from a set of electrodes with an analog signal processing component;
digitizing the processed signal to create a digital representation of the signal;
automatically processing the digital representation to determine at least one electrocardiographic feature and periods during which the digital representation of the signal represents artifact;
analyzing the at least one determined electrocardiographic feature to determine at least a heart rate;
contingently generating information packets having a plurality of different information types, the information packets having a respective information type dependent on at least the determined at least one electrocardiographic feature and the determined periods representing artifact; and
wireless communicating the information packets, under control of a microprocessor, to remain in a non-transmitting low power state without transmitting information packets for the periods representing artifact, and to enter a transmitting high power state for transmission of the contingently generated information packets containing valid statistics for at least the heart rate, and subsequently revert to the low power state after transmission.