Patent ID: 8285246

Claim:
An electronic implant configured to detect at least one technical or physiological patient parameter, the electronic implant including: a. a mobile wireless antenna; b. a mobile wireless modem connected to the mobile wireless antenna, the mobile wireless modem having low power consumption and low maximum transmission power; c. a mobile wireless field strength measuring unit connected to at least one of: (1) the mobile wireless antenna, and (2) a secondary antenna; d. a secondary field strength detector; e. a control unit connected to the mobile wireless field strength measuring unit and the mobile wireless modem, the control unit being: (1) configured to activate the mobile wireless field strength measuring unit when the secondary field strength detector indicates a threshold field strength, and (2) configured to: (a) trigger access by the mobile wireless modem to a mobile wireless network, and (b) transmit data content over the mobile wireless network, in dependence on: i. a field strength measured by the mobile wireless field strength measuring unit, wherein access to the mobile wireless network is triggered when the measured field strength meets or exceeds a minimum transmission success threshold, and ii. the urgency of the data content to be transmitted over the mobile wireless network, wherein data content of greater urgency is transmitted at or below the minimum transmission success threshold.