Patent ID: 7333856

Claim:
A method of programming an implantable therapeutic stimulation device that senses from and delivers therapeutic stimulation to multiple sites within a patient under a plurality of individually programmable parameters, the method comprising: displaying a waveform, comprising: displaying a waveform indicating expected physiological activity under a first set of programmed parameters of the device; automatically determining which of the parameters need to be individually programmed; indicating the parameters that need to be programmed via indicating regions of the displayed waveform that are affected by the indicated parameter; providing control inputs to reprogram the indicated parameters; and indicating as indicated parameters are reprogrammed by modifying the waveform in accordance with the reprogrammed parameters; and graphically displaying the parameters that need to be programmed, comprising: graphically displaying the parameters in a spatial relationship corresponding to a spatial relationship of the sites within the patient expected to be affected by the parameters; providing control inputs to program the parameters; and indicating as parameters are programmed; wherein graphically displaying the parameters comprises displaying multiple parameters arranged in a left-right and up-down spatial relations corresponding to relative spatial locations of a heart.