Patent ID: 8068915

Claim:
A method comprising: identifying a plurality of neurostimulation therapy programs during a patient-specific neurostimulation therapy programming session, the identified neurostimulation therapy programs having been tested on a patient; associating each of the identified neurostimulation therapy programs with at least one of a plurality of program categories, wherein each of the program categories is related to a characteristic of at least one of the identified neurostimulation therapy programs; automatically generating a plurality of program groups for the patient based on the program categories, each of the program groups including at least two of the identified neurostimulation therapy programs; and providing the generated program groups to at least one of a programming device or a medical device associated with the patient, wherein a selected one of the program groups controls delivery of neurostimulation therapy to the patient by the medical device, and wherein the at least two neurostimulation therapy programs of the selected one of the program groups are delivered to the patient substantially simultaneously.