Multiple user accounts for managing stored information in an implantable medical device system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8990924-B2
Application number	US-49388909-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 29, 2009
Priority date	Aug 27, 2008
Publication date	Mar 24, 2015
Grant date	Mar 24, 2015

Abstract

Techniques for managing stored information in an implantable medical device system using multiple user accounts are described. An implantable medical device system may provide a general user account and a set of authenticable user accounts. In some examples, the general user account does not require a user of a programmer in an implantable medical device system to enter user identity information to manage information stored in the implantable medical device system. The general user account may be permitted to perform a subset of actions available to an authenticable user account. In some examples, an authenticable user account may rollback changes made to the stored information by the general user account. An authenticable user account may also be able to synchronize changes made to the stored information across all or some of the user accounts.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
storing data of an implantable medical device and a set of user accounts in a memory, wherein the set of user accounts comprises a general user account and a user accounts;
determining whether a user of a programmer that communicates with the implantable medical device is a general user or an authenticable user;
accessing one of the general user account or one of the plurality of authenticable user accounts based on the determi…

Assignees

• Chow Theodore
• Medtronic Inc

Inventors

• Chow Theodore

Classifications

• A61N1/37252 Primary

  Human Necessities · mapped topic

• A61N1/37264

  Human Necessities · mapped topic

• G06F21/31

  Physics · mapped topic

• A61N1/37247 Primary

  Human Necessities · mapped topic

• A61N1/37254

  Human Necessities · mapped topic