Patent ID: 8805526

Claim:
A system including an external medical data telemetry device to communicate with an implantable medical device (IMD), the external medical data telemetry device comprising: a processor; a reconfigurable far field radio-frequency (RF) transceiver circuit, operable to modulate an outgoing IMD data signal and to demodulate an incoming IMD data signal using at least one modulation type that is selectable from a plurality of configurable far field RF modulation types by the processor; at least one far-field antenna, in electrical communication with the reconfigurable RF transceiver circuit, the far field antenna for RF wireless communication with an IMD using the RF modulation technique; a reconfigurable protocol layer configured to determine, according to a protocol driver, content and order of bytes of data for far field RF communication with the IMD, wherein the protocol driver is one of a plurality of protocol drivers loadable from memory that implement different byte-level protocols; and a user interface, in electrical communication with the processor, wherein the processor selects the far field RF modulation type and protocol driver using information entered by a user.