Patent ID: 6665565
Filing Date: 2003-12-16
Classification: A61B,A61N,G10L

Abstract:
A method for conducting failure mode recovery in an implantable medical device upon interruption of communications with the implantable medical device, the method comprising:(a) establishing a communications link between a remote medical communications system having a programming application program and a programming extender module configured to receive an application proxy from the application program; (b) loading the application proxy into the programming extender module; (c) transitioning the implantable medical device to a known recovery state in response to an interruption of a communications with the implantable medical device; (d) transitioning the implantable medical device to a predetermined completed state; (e) monitoring transition of the implantable medical device to the predetermined completed state; and (f) automatically restoring the implantable medical device to the known recovery state by the application proxy if an interruption of communications with the implantable medical device is detected while transitioning to the completed state.