Patent ID: 8594801

Claim:
An implantable medical system comprising: a sensor configured to sense data representative of movement of the implantable medical system or movement of a portion of a body of a patient in which the implantable medical system is implanted; a controller configured to receive the sensed data from the sensor; and a telemetry module coupled to the controller and configured for communication between the implantable medical system and an external device, the telemetry module having a configurable polling interval at which the telemetry module is activated for a period of time to detect whether a communication signal is being received from an external device, wherein the controller is configured to: determine that the sensed data representative of the movement meets a criteria; and adjust, in response to and based on the determination, a length of the polling interval of the telemetry module from a first value to a second value, wherein both the first value and the second value are non-zero values.