Patent ID: 7697993
Filing Date: 2010-04-13
Classification: A61N,G16H

Abstract:
1. A medical device programmer, comprising: a telemetry circuit adapted to communicate with an implantable medical device; a device identification device adapted to identify a device type of the implantable medical device using information received by the telemetry circuit from the implantable medical device, the device type indicative of one or more available operational modes of the implantable medical device; a user interface device including: a parameter generator coupled to the telemetry circuit, the device identification module, and the user interface, the parameter generator including an answer receiver to receive answers through the answer field of the screen and a parameter value receiver to receive parameter values through the parameter value entry fields and adapted to produce values for a set of operational parameters for the implantable medical device to operate in at least one operational mode of the one or more available operational modes using the received answers and the received parameter values.