PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15881352
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["607", "060000"]

Abstract:
Systems and methods are disclosed in which an external device such as a consumer mobile device (e.g., smart phone) is used as an external controller to bi-directionally communicate with an Implantable Medical Device (IMD) using a dedicated patient remote control (RC) as an intermediary device to translate communications between the two. The dedicated RC contains a graphical user interface allowing for control and monitoring of the IMD even if the mobile device is not present in the system, which is useful as a back-up should the mobile device experience problems. Use of the dedicated RC as an intermediary device broadens the utility of other computing devices to operate as an external controller for an IMD even if the computing device and IMD do not have compliant communication means.

Claim (Index 1):
A system, comprising:\n a remote control for communicating with an Implantable Medical Device (IMD), the remote control comprising:\n a housing; \n communication circuitry within the housing configured to communicate information with the IMD via a first wireless link and to communicate information with an external device via a second wireless link; \n a first user interface configured to enable a user to transmit a first control instruction for the IMD via the first wireless link; and \n control circuitry coupled to the communication circuitry, wherein the control circuitry is configured to transmit information received via the first or second wireless link from the other of the first or second wireless link.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 47.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.82895
- Patent Class: 607.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15396748', '14789564', '14599743', '15424284', '15649470']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.678852103888224
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5355063163338319
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6645175251327848
- Mean Citation Score: 301.7282160000001
- Max Citation Score: 396.893
- Similarity Product: 364.367615129888

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test