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20090119330 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR STORING, ANALYZING, AND RETRIEVING MEDICAL DATA - Physiological information obtained from a medical patient can be stored in a dynamic round-robin database. Parameter descriptors may be used to identify parameter values in the records. The parameter values can be dynamically updated by changing the parameter descriptors to provide for a flexible database. In addition, the size of files used in the database can be dynamically adjusted to account for patient condition. In certain implementations, the round-robin database can be adaptive, such that an amount of data stored in the database is adapted based on patient condition and/or signal condition. Additionally, medical data obtained from a clinical network of physiological monitors can be stored in a journal database. The medical data can include device events that occurred in response to clinician interactions with one or more medical devices and device-initiated events, such as alarms and the like. The journal database can be analyzed to derive statistics, which may be used to improve clinician and/or hospital performance. | 05-07-2009 |
20100234718 | OPEN ARCHITECTURE MEDICAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present disclosure provides an open architecture communication system for patient monitoring devices and other patient care equipment. The open architecture of the present system allows devices running different operating systems and software to communicate correctly and efficiently with the care center network. One aspect of the system includes a patient monitoring virtual machine which allows patient monitoring devices and other patient care equipment to allow for communications with other devices on the network or other networks and automatic configuration of devices. Aspects of the system also provide for relocation of post-processing functions, arrangement of devices into domains, and/or management of devices using servers and other management systems. | 09-16-2010 |
20110001605 | MEDICAL MONITORING SYSTEM - Medical patient monitoring devices that have the capability of detecting the physical proximity of a clinician are disclosed. The medical patient monitoring devices may be configured to perform a selected action when the presence of a clinician is detected. Systems and methods for facilitating communication between medical devices that use different medical communication protocol formats are also disclosed. For example, a medical communication protocol translator can be configured to receive an input message formatted according to a first protocol format from a first medical device and to output an output message formatted according to a second protocol format supported by a second medical device using a set of translation rules. Medical monitoring reporting systems are also disclosed. The medical monitoring reporting systems may be used to analyze a stored collection of physiological parameter data to simulate the effect of changing various medical monitoring options. | 01-06-2011 |
20110105854 | MEDICAL MONITORING SYSTEM - Medical patient monitoring devices that have the capability of detecting the physical proximity of a clinician are disclosed. The medical patient monitoring devices may be configured to perform a first selected action when the presence of a clinician is detected in a first detection area, and to perform a second selected action when the presence of the clinician is detected in a second detection area. The medical patient monitoring devices may be configured to determine whether a clinician is present in a detection area based on the strength of a signal from a clinician token, and based on a signal strength adjustment value associated with the clinician token. When the presence of a clinician is detected in a detection area, the medical patient monitoring devices may be configured to perform a predetermined action that is determined from a remote database communicatively coupled thereto. | 05-05-2011 |
20110213272 | ACOUSTIC PATIENT SENSOR - According to certain described aspects, multiple acoustic sensing elements are employed in a variety of beneficial ways to provide improved physiological monitoring, among other advantages. In various embodiments, sensing elements can be advantageously employed in a single sensor package, in multiple sensor packages, and at a variety of other strategic locations in the monitoring environment. According to other aspects, to compensate for skin elasticity and attachment variability, an acoustic sensor support is provided that includes one or more pressure equalization pathways. The pathways can provide an air-flow channel from the cavity defined by the sensing elements and frame to the ambient air pressure. | 09-01-2011 |
20110213273 | ACOUSTIC RESPIRATORY MONITORING SENSOR HAVING MULTIPLE SENSING ELEMENTS - According to certain described aspects, multiple acoustic sensing elements are employed in a variety of beneficial ways to provide improved physiological monitoring, among other advantages. In various embodiments, sensing elements can be advantageously employed in a single sensor package, in multiple sensor packages, and at a variety of other strategic locations in the monitoring environment. According to other aspects, to compensate for skin elasticity and attachment variability, an acoustic sensor support is provided that includes one or more pressure equalization pathways. The pathways can provide an air-flow channel from the cavity defined by the sensing elements and frame to the ambient air pressure. | 09-01-2011 |
20130096936 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR STORING, ANALYZING, AND RETRIEVING MEDICAL DATA - Medical data obtained from a clinical network of physiological monitors can be stored in a journal database. The medical data can include device events that occurred in response to clinician interactions with one or more medical devices and device-initiated events, such as alarms and the like. The journal database can be analyzed to derive statistics, which may be used to improve clinician and/or hospital performance. | 04-18-2013 |
20130162433 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR STORING, ANALYZING, RETRIEVING AND DISPLAYING STREAMING MEDICAL DATA - A method of storing streaming physiological information obtained from a medical patient in a multi-patient monitoring environment includes receiving identification information, retrieving parameter descriptors, creating a round-robin database file, receiving a data stream, and using a predetermined data rate to map the data stream to locations in the round-robin database file. | 06-27-2013 |
20130262730 | MEDICAL MONITORING HUB - The present disclosure includes a medical monitoring hub as the center of monitoring for a monitored patient. The hub includes configurable medical ports and serial ports for communicating with other medical devices in the patient's proximity. Moreover, the hub communicates with a portable patient monitor. The monitor, when docked with the hub provides display graphics different from when undocked, the display graphics including anatomical information. The hub assembles the often vast amount of electronic medical data, associates it with the monitored patient, and in some embodiments, communicates the data to the patient's medical records. | 10-03-2013 |
20130274571 | HYPERSATURATION INDEX - Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a hypersaturation index for measuring a patient's absorption of oxygen in the blood stream after a patient has reached 100% oxygen saturation. This hypersaturation index provides an indication of the partial pressure of oxygen of a patient. In an embodiment of the present invention, a hypersaturation index is calculated based on the absorption ratio of two different wavelengths of energy at a measuring site. In an embodiment of the invention, a maximum hypersaturation index threshold is determined such that an alarm is triggered when the hypersaturation index reaches or exceeds the threshold. In another embodiment, an alarm is triggered when the hypersaturation index reaches or falls below its starting point when it was first calculated. | 10-17-2013 |
20140077956 | INTELLIGENT MEDICAL NETWORK EDGE ROUTER - A medical network service can replace or supplement some or all of an expensive internally staffed clinical facility network with a cloud-based networking service. The medical network service in certain embodiments can provide networking services via software as a service technologies, platform as a service technologies, and/or infrastructure as a service technologies. The medical network service can provide these services to large existing clinical facilities such as metropolitan hospitals as well as to smaller clinical facilities such as specialized surgical centers. The medical network service can replace and/or supplement existing IT networks in hospitals and other clinical facilities and can therefore reduce costs and increase security and reliability of those networks. In addition, the medical network service can provide synergistic benefits that can improve patient outcomes and patient care. In addition, a medical edge router can provide redundant communications features for transmitting patient data to the medical network service. | 03-20-2014 |
20140135588 | MEDICAL MONITORING SYSTEM - Medical patient monitoring devices that have the capability of detecting the physical proximity of a clinician token are disclosed. The medical patient monitoring devices may be configured to perform a selected action when the presence of a clinician is detected. The selected action may be dependent upon an attribute of the circumstances surrounding detection of the clinician. | 05-15-2014 |
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20080212460 | ROBUST TRANSMISSION SCHEME FOR WIRELESS NETWORKS - Systems and methods are described that facilitate assigning a predefined manner in which interfering transmissions may be fully or partially orthogonalized, as well as transmission time periods during which the orthogonalization protocol(s) may be employed. Depending on interference conditions, flexible resource reuse may be implemented to mitigate interference without unduly taxing resources. The subject of the innovation may be employed in, for instance, an ad hoc or unplanned/semi-planned wireless communication environment. | 09-04-2008 |
20090022173 | CONTROL INDICATIONS FOR SLOTTED WIRELESS COMMUNICATION - Multiple control indications are transmitted within timeslots defined for a slotted communication system. For example, a wireless node may transmit a control indication at a beginning of a timeslot and at an end of a timeslot. A control indication may comprise a resource utilization message that a node generates in an attempt reduce inference at the node that is caused by transmissions by neighboring nodes. A node also may synchronize to a received timeslot of another node based on the position of one or more control indications within the timeslot. Here, each control indication may include information that indicates the position of the control indication within the timeslot. | 01-22-2009 |
20090034458 | METHOD FOR SCHEDULING ORTHOGONALLY OVER MULTIPLE HOPS - Apparatus and method for providing a relay between uplink and downlink nodes. The relay is provided by simultaneously communicating with the uplink and downlink nodes on a common channel. | 02-05-2009 |
20090036138 | METHOD FOR SCHEDULING ORTHOGONALLY OVER MULTIPLE HOPS - Apparatus and method for supporting wireless downlink and uplink connections. In the downlink direction, an apparatus receives from the downlink node a request to communicate using an allocation of radio resources specified by the downlink node, and transmits to the downlink node a grant to communicate using at least a portion of the specified allocation of radio resources. In the uplink direction, the apparatus sends a request to a downlink node to communicate using a specified allocation of radio resources, and receives from the downlink node a grant to communicate using at least a portion of the specified allocation of radio resources | 02-05-2009 |
20090067369 | ROUTING IN A MESH NETWORK - Apparatus and method for associating with any one of a plurality of access points in a mesh network including estimating a plurality of metrics for the access points, the estimated metrics being related to throughputs provided by the access points, and selecting one of the access points to associate with based on the metrics and a plurality of backhaul metrics for the access points, the backhaul metrics being related to backhaul throughputs for the access points. The backhaul metrics may be advertised by the access points. | 03-12-2009 |
20110045776 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING OFDM SIGNALS IN THE PRESENCE OF FREQUENCY ORTHOGONAL OFDM INTERFERERS - Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to techniques and apparatus for detecting Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) signals in the presence of frequency orthogonal OFDM interferers. | 02-24-2011 |
20120294258 | UTILITY MAXIMIZATION SCHEDULER FOR BROADBAND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a technique of designing a Media Access Control (MAC) scheduler for uplink communication in high rate wireless data systems, such as Long Term Evolution (LTE) wireless communication systems. | 11-22-2012 |
20150215959 | DETERMINING A TRANSMIT PARAMETER FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION - A wireless media access control supports asynchronous communication and overlapping transmissions. Here, a wireless node may determine whether to request or schedule a transmission based on control messages it receives from neighboring nodes. In some implementations a scheduled transmission may be divided up into several segments so that a transmitting node may receive and transmit control messages between segments. In some implementations a monitoring period is defined after a scheduled transmission period to enable the transmitting node to acquire control information that may otherwise have been transmitted during the scheduled transmission period. In some implementations data and control information are transmitted over different frequency division multiplexed channels to enable concurrent transmission of the data and control information. | 07-30-2015 |
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20110223619 | COMBINATIONS OF PHOSPHOINOSITIDE 3-KINASE INHIBITOR COMPOUNDS AND CHEMOTHERAPEUTIC AGENTS, AND METHODS OF USE - Combinations of PI3K inhibitor compounds having Formulas I and II and chemotherapeutic agents, including stereoisomers, geometric isomers, tautomers, metabolites and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, are useful for treating hyperproliferative disorders such as cancer. Methods of using such combinations for in vitro, in situ, and in vivo diagnosis, prevention or treatment of such disorders in mammalian cells, or associated pathological conditions, are disclosed. | 09-15-2011 |
20140155372 | COMBINATIONS OF AKT AND MEK INHIBITOR COMPOUNDS, AND METHODS OF USE - The invention provides combinations comprising a) compound of formula I: (formula I), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof; and another agent selected from GDC-0973, PD-0325901, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. The combinations are particularly useful for treating hyperproliferative disorders, such as cancer. | 06-05-2014 |
20140221386 | COMBINATIONS OF AKT INHIBITOR COMPOUNDS AND ERLOTINIB, AND METHODS OF USE - The invention provides A combination of a) a compound of Formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof; and b) erlotinib or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof for the prophylactic or therapeutic treatment of a hyperproliferative disorder, such as cancer. | 08-07-2014 |
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20090098135 | COMBINATIONS OF PHOSPHOINOSITIDE 3-KINASE INHIBITOR COMPOUNDS AND CHEMOTHERAPEUTIC AGENTS, AND METHODS OF USE - Combinations of PI3K inhibitor compounds having Formulas I and II and chemotherapeutic agents, including stereoisomers, geometric isomers, tautomers, metabolites and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, are useful for treating hyperproliferative disorders such as cancer. Methods of using such combinations for in vitro, in situ, and in vivo diagnosis, prevention or treatment of such disorders in mammalian cells, or associated pathological conditions, are disclosed. | 04-16-2009 |
20140044706 | MUTANT SELECTIVITY AND COMBINATIONS OF A PHOSPHOINOSITIDE 3-KINASE INHIBITOR COMPOUND AND CHEMOTHERAPEUTIC AGENTS FOR THE TREATMENT OF CANCER - Methods and compositions are provided for treating hyperproliferative disorders in patients with a PI3K inhibitor, GDC-0032 as a single agent or in combination with chemotherapeutic agents. | 02-13-2014 |
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20150317194 | PERIODIC VALIDATION AND HEALTH REPORTS OF DISASTER RECOVERY PLAN - Techniques are described for validating a disaster recovery plan. In an embodiment, a request is received to perform a validation of a disaster recovery operation plan that includes a set of instructions for performing a disaster recovery operation with respect to a first site and a second site. In response to receiving the request to perform the validation of the disaster recovery operation plan, a set of one or more validation operations is performed with respect to the disaster recovery operation plan. Based on the set of one or more validation operations, a report is generated that identifies one or more issues that may prevent the disaster recovery operation plan from executing properly. | 11-05-2015 |
20150317220 | DYNAMIC GENERATION OF DISASTER RECOVERY PLAN WHICH REACT TO CHANGES TO AN UNDERLYING TOPOLOGY - Techniques are described for dynamically generating a disaster recovery plan. In an embodiment, a set of topology metadata is determined for a first site on which a multi-tier application is deployed and a second site where the multi-tier application will be activated in the event of switchover/failover. The topology metadata may include metadata that identifies a set of targets associated with a plurality of tiers on the first site on which the multi-tier application is deployed and also on the second site where the multi-tier application would be activated in the event of disaster recovery operation like switchover or failover. Based, at least in part, on the topology metadata for the first site and second site, a disaster recovery plan is generated. The disaster recovery plan includes an ordered set of instructions for deactivating the multi-tier application at the first site and activating the multi-tier application at a second site. | 11-05-2015 |
20150317221 | COMPREHENSIVE ERROR MANAGEMENT CAPABILITIES FOR DISASTER RECOVERY OPERATIONS - Techniques are described for providing error management capabilities for disaster recovery operations. In an embodiment, first user input is received that identifies a first error mode to assign to a particular step of a disaster recovery plan that includes a set of steps for performing a disaster recovery operation. In response to receiving the first user input, the particular step is associated with the first error mode. In response to determining that an error occurred while processing the particular step of the disaster recovery plan, the error mode that is associated with the particular step is determined. Error handling is performed for the particular step based, at least in part, on the error mode that is associated with the particular step of the disaster recovery plan. | 11-05-2015 |
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20080208938 | Distributed Database System Providing Data and Space Management Methodology - A distributed database system providing data and space management methodology. In a distributed system comprising a plurality of servers sharing access to data pages, a method for setting a timestamp indicating when modifications to data pages are made in a non-regressing fashion comprises steps of: maintaining a local sequence at each server and an allocation page timestamp on an allocation page; upon allocation of a data page, applying a timestamp to the data page which is greater than the allocation page timestamp; upon modification of a given data page at a particular server, setting the timestamp on the given data page to the greater of the local sequence at the particular server and an existing timestamp already on the given data page; and when data pages are deallocated, adjusting the allocation page timestamp to a value greater than the timestamp value on any deallocated data page. | 08-28-2008 |
20080235298 | Distributed Database System Providing Data and Space Management Methodology - A distributed database system providing data and space management methodology. In a distributed database system having an allocation page for tracking allocation and deallocation of data pages including a deallocation bit for tracking data page deallocation, a method for determining when to clear the deallocation bit during recovery comprises: during runtime operation, generating log records recording allocation and deallocation of data pages, setting the deallocation bit during deallocation of a data page by a transaction, and clearing the deallocation bit after the transaction has committed; during recovery following a failure, identifying a particular log record corresponding to the deallocation bit set during deallocation of a given data page; determining whether the deallocation of the given data page recorded in the particular log record committed prior to the failure; and if the deallocation of the given data page committed prior to the failure, clearing the deallocation bit. | 09-25-2008 |
20080294648 | Distributed Database System Providing Data and Space Management Methodology - A distributed database system providing data and space management methodology. In one embodiment, for example, a method for transferring a data structure in cache at a first database server to a second database server in a distributed database system comprises steps of: determining a first database server having a data structure in cache in response to a request for the data structure from a second database server, the request including a request for a lock on the data structure; providing the request for the data structure to the first database server; in response, sending the data structure from the first database server to the second database server; and receiving and using the data structure at the second database server without waiting for the lock request to be explicitly granted. | 11-27-2008 |