Patent ID: 8050753

Claim:
A method for neural stimulation, comprising: delivering neural stimulation pulses through at least one electrode; controlling the delivery of the neural stimulation pulses using a plurality of stimulation parameters; detecting a safety-control event, including detecting a stimulation energy being an energy of one or more neural stimulation pulses of the neural stimulation pulses delivered through the at least one electrode and one or more parameter values each being a value of a parameter of the plurality of stimulation parameters; indicating a detection of the safety-control event when the stimulation energy exceeds a predetermined threshold energy; indicating a detection of the safety-control event when a first parameter value of the one or more parameter values exceeds a first threshold value; dynamically adjusting the first threshold value using at least a second parameter value of the one or more parameter values; and adjusting one or more parameters of the plurality of stimulation parameters in response to the detection of the safety-control event.