| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 340286060 | Call station | 51 |
| 20080197984 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REDUCING A PATRON'S WAITING TIME AT A WALK-IN FACILITY - A method for reducing a patron's waiting time at a walk-in facility includes providing a communications network, wherein the communications network includes a first communications link between a patron and a walk-in facility. The method includes providing a queue, receiving a consultation request via the first communications link, reserving a position in the queue in response to the consultation request, determining a time period before a consultation is available, and providing notice to the patron of the determined time period, wherein the patron may wait at a location other than the walk-in facility during the determined time period, thereby reducing the patron's need to wait at the walk-in facility before being consulted at the walk-in facility. | 08-21-2008 |
| 20090295550 | Elevator system with wireless hall call buttons - An elevator system ( | 12-03-2009 |
| 20100013607 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING A COMMUNICATION LINK - A method provides a communication link between a first location such as a digital cinema theater and a second location such as a support station. According to one exemplary embodiment, the method includes the steps of initiating a communication link between a first location and a second location in response to an activation by a user, automatically providing an identification associated with the first location to the second location via the communication link, and wherein the identification enables the second location to obtain information relating to an undesirable operating condition of the first location. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100109854 | CALL CORD ALERT WITH BRACKET - A call cord comprising an electrical wire or cable having one end thereof located at a nurse's station or other remote location to which it is desired to send an alert signal and a second end terminating proximate a medical patient or other user and including a push-button type switch. Intermediate the opposite ends of the call cord, there is provided a housed switch of the present invention whose actuation is a function of the physical engagement of the house switch within a operatively cooperative fixed mounting bracket for the housed switch. In the present invention, actuation of the housed switch may be accomplished as a function of the association or disassociation of the housed switch relative to the bracket. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100171600 | REMOTE MESSAGING AND SECURITY SYSTEM - A message and security system comprising a visitor message device and a host message device is disclosed. The host message device allows a host to select a message or status which is indicated or displayed on the visitor message device. The messages can be personalized so that a visitor after inputting identification information is given an appropriate message. A lock controller connected to the host message device locks and unlocks entrances. A host remote device remotely controls and communications with the host message device and the visitor message device. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100315208 | ELEVATOR CALL REGISTRATION SYSTEM AND ELEVATOR CALL REGISTRATION PROCESSING DEVICE - A lobby detection device | 12-16-2010 |
| 20110133909 | ALARM PANEL PHONE NUMBER CAPTURE AND SUBSTITUTION - A method and apparatus are provided. The method includes the steps of connecting a rerouting processor to a communication port of an alarm panel, the connected processor capturing an alarm notification sent from the alarm panel through the communication port, said alarm notification including a destination telephone number of a first central monitoring station, the connected processor altering the captured alarm notification by deleting the destination telephone number from the captured alarm notification and the connected processor routing the altered alarm notification to a second central monitoring station that is different than the first monitoring station. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20120161947 | INTERCOM SYSTEM CONTROLLING METHOD - An intercom system controlling method stores intercom system location information in an electronic device, and sets a reply interface which is displayed on a screen to provide alert messages and operable buttons regarding different communication statuses between the electronic device and an intercom system, which has an outdoor installed at an entrance of a building and an indoor intercom installed with the building. After receiving a request data packet that is generated and sent by a network device of the intercom system, the method displays the intercom system location information, the alert messages and operable buttons of a waiting-for communication status on the reply interface. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20130278399 | RESPONDING TO HEALTHCARE ALERTS - A healthcare alert system including a plurality of alert modules, each alert module including an activation component and an RFID reader. The RFID readers in the alert modules are configured to read identification information of a responder to an alert from an RFID tag associated with the responder, and to transmit the identification information to a central system. The central system is configured associate a time stamp with the identification information and to process the identification information and time of response. In one embodiment, the activation component is a pull cord. | 10-24-2013 |
| 20160180681 | INTERACTIVE WIRELESS LIFE SAFETY COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM | 06-23-2016 |
| 340286070 | Hospital | 38 |
| 20080204201 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM AND PROTOCOL FOR MEDICAL ENVIRONMENT - A communications system and protocol are described for wirelessly interconnecting a pair of bed and wall units that communicate the patient information, including bed exit alerts, from the patient supporting equipment to the hospital nurse call system. A linking procedure is provided for establishing a communications link to interconnect the pair of units, wherein the communications link fails upon detection of a third communications device simultaneously undergoing the link attempt mode. In one embodiment, the system provides for advanced collision detection by monitoring corruption of the end-of-packet byte within the periodic check-in message sequences between the linked units to prevent data corruption and future collisions. To ensure prompt interconnection of units, embodiments of the invention provide for a link reminder to alert the health care provider to initiate the steps for linking the bed and wall units whenever two or more unlinked units are in proximity. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20090079549 | DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR PATIENT-CARE PROVIDER COMMUNICATION - An electronic identification badge configured to provide patient-care provider communication, comprising a clip and a housing. The housing includes a master image display device; wherein the master display module further includes a first pocket disposed on the front side of the housing. The badge also includes a manual signal module having a call button module and an image display device, wherein the image display device further includes a second pocket. The badge further includes a signal module functionally coupled to the manual signal module and configured to transmit a wireless signal triggered. The signal module includes a control module, wherein the control module further includes a plurality of buttons. The signal module also includes a network communication module, wherein the network communication module further includes a wireless transmission module. In addition, the signal module includes a data storage module and a light module in communication with the control module. | 03-26-2009 |
| 20090212925 | USER STATION FOR HEALTHCARE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A user station configurable for use in a healthcare communication system, such as a nurse call system, is provided. | 08-27-2009 |
| 20090273455 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IN-PATIENT TELEPHONY - A system and method for tracking patients to enable communications. A presence of a patient is detected in a room. Communications intended for the patient are associated with the room. The communications are routed to the patient in the room. | 11-05-2009 |
| 20100052871 | SPEECH-DRIVEN PATIENT CARE SYSTEM WITH WEARABLE DEVICES - Embodiments of the invention provide a communication system for care providers and a method of managing patient care utilizing same. The system comprises a patient communication unit configured to be positioned proximate to a patient and operable to capture a patient call that includes speech input of the patient, a central console communicably coupled with the patient communication unit for receiving the call from the patient communication unit, and a portable communication unit configured to be carried by a care provider and communicably coupled with the central console, the portable communication unit operable to receive the call from the central console, to capture speech input of the care provider, and to play at least a portion of the patient speech input, the portable communication unit further operable to convert at least a portion of the care provider speech input into at least one command associated with the call. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100097197 | HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY PILLOW SPEAKER CABLES AND INTERFACES - Healthcare industry pillow speaker cables and interfaces are disclosed. Pillow speaker cables communicatively couple a pillow speaker to another device. Pillow speaker cables comprise four wires. The first wire and the second wire comprise a data bus for communicating data to and from the pillow speaker. The third wire and the fourth wire comprise an audio line and an audio return line for transmitting audio information to and from a speaker in the pillow speaker. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20110140869 | Patient Bed - A patient bed with a multimedia system is disclosed. A patient can access a net work through the multimedia system, and to join a net meeting to chat with other patients. The multimedia system can also provide a consolidated platform of medical information for a doctor or a nurse. An input device of the patient bed may have a touch pad, which allows the patient to control the position of patient support through finger gesture. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110156886 | PAGING INTERFACE ADAPTER - A system for interfacing between medical devices using different output protocols and medical personnel is provided. A user may configure the system to accept different external device outputs on different input ports of the system. The system may be programmed to correctly associate the input signals with alert conditions based upon the particular input device connected to the particular input port. The system may also be configured to send status information from the input devices to medical personnel by transmitting a message utilizing the output protocol appropriate to the communication system used by the medical personnel requiring the information. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110210833 | COMBINED POWER AND DATA CORD AND RECEPTACLE - A system for use with a hospital bed having circuitry and a standard AC power outlet spaced from the hospital bed is provided. The system includes a cable assembly couplable to the circuitry of the hospital bed. The cable assembly has power conductors and at least one data conductor. The cable assembly also has a plug including a first power coupler coupled to the power conductors and a first data coupler coupled to the at least one data conductor. The system also includes a second data coupler mountable adjacent the standard AC power outlet. The second data coupler is configured to couple to the first data coupler when the first power coupler is coupled to the standard AC power outlet. | 09-01-2011 |
| 20120013452 | ASSOCIATION OF SUPPORT SURFACES AND BEDS - Systems, methods, beds, supports surfaces and machine readable medium for associating beds and support surface of a healthcare facility are disclosed. A surface association system for a healthcare facility may comprise a plurality of beds. The system may further comprise a computing device and a plurality of support surfaces to be placed upon beds of the plurality of beds. The computing device may associate a support surface of the plurality of support surfaces with a bed of the plurality of beds. The computing device may make the association based upon status data received from the plurality of beds and the plurality of support surfaces. The support surface and/or bed to be associated may initiate a surface association request. The computing device, in response to the surface association request, may request performance of one or more actions on the bed and/or support surface to be associated to identify the bed and/or support surface from the beds and support surfaces of the healthcare facility. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120119890 | HOSPITAL BED WITH NURSE CALL SYSTEM INTERFACE UNIT - A system for use in a healthcare facility having a nurse call system with a nurse call computer located remotely from patient rooms is provided. The system includes a hospital bed having communication circuitry configured for communicating data from the hospital bed. An interface unit is spaced from the hospital bed. The interface unit has a first connector to which the hospital bed couples via a wired connection, a second connector which is communicatively coupled to the nurse call system, and circuitry comprising a third connector for connection to an external device. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120194327 | USER STATION FOR HEALTHCARE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A user station configurable for use in a healthcare communication system, such as a nurse call system, is provided. | 08-02-2012 |
| 20120223821 | PATIENT SUPPORT APPARATUS ALERT SYSTEM - A system including a patient support apparatus that has an adjustable height, a brake and a siderail. The system also includes a processor receiving at least two of the following signals: a first signal indicating a brake condition of the brake, a second signal indicating a siderail condition of the siderail, and a third signal indicating a height condition of the patient support apparatus. The system has a user input configured to allow a person to make a selection of any one or more of the brake, siderail and height conditions for monitoring. The system includes a light that has a first state when any of the selected brake, siderail and height conditions indicate an alarm condition and that has a second state when all of the selected brake, siderail and height conditions of the selection indicate no alarm condition. | 09-06-2012 |
| 20130021143 | Hospital Bed Having User Input To Enable And Suspend Remote Monitoring Of Alert Conditions - A hospital bed has a bed frame and communication circuitry operable to transmit bed status data to a network of a healthcare facility and to receive messages from the network. The messages include information indicating whether bed status conditions are being monitored by a remote computer of the network for generation of alert messages to at least one caregiver in response to alert conditions being indicated by the bed status data. The bed has at least one user input that is used locally at the bed to enable and suspend monitoring of the bed status conditions by the remote computer. | 01-24-2013 |
| 20130069770 | Mouth pipe unit for activating a device - A mouth pipe and porous filter unit for operation of a device, e.g. a pneumatically actuated device, comprises a mouth pipe in communication with an air tube for delivering blown air to the device. The mouth pipe comprises a one-piece transparent thermoplastic extrusion member and has an integral projection for grasping the mouth pipe. The porous filter has a pore size ranging from 90 microns to 130 microns for preventing saliva and/or blood of a patient from flowing into the air tube and surrounding environment. The mouth pipe comprises a first diameter section, a transition member, and an enlarged second diameter section which form a continuous airway therein and the porous filter is wedged within the enlarged second diameter section of the mouth pipe. The material of the mouth pipe may be polyvinyl chloride, and the material of the filter may be polystyrene. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130069771 | HOSPITAL BED HAVING POWERLINE COMMUNICATION CAPABILITY - Apparatus for communicating with a nurse call system is provided. The apparatus includes a hospital bed and a module spaced from the hospital bed. The hospital bed has a power cord including a first AC plug that plugs into an AC receptacle of the module. The module has a separate power cord that plugs into a standard AC power receptacle. Thus, power is provided to the hospital bed via the module. Bed data is communicated to the module via at least one conductor of the power cord that couples the bed to the module. The module has circuitry that extracts the bed data sent from the bed via the power cord and communicates the bed data to the nurse call system. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130162414 | INDICATOR APPARATUS FOR HEALTHCARE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An indicator apparatus is configurable for use in a healthcare communication system, such as a nurse call system. The indicator apparatus includes a visual indicator. The visual indicator is operable to selectively display one or more colors in response to calls received by the healthcare communication system. | 06-27-2013 |
| 20130257600 | USER STATION FOR HEALTHCARE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A user station configurable for use in a healthcare communication system, such as a nurse call system, is provided. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130300548 | IN-ROOM ALARM CONFIGURATION OF NURSE CALL SYSTEM - A nurse call system includes a room station located in a patient room and having a graphical display. The nurse call system also includes an equipment port located in the patient room and configured to couple to medical equipment to receive an alarm signal from the medical equipment. The room station is configured to present a list of medical equipment types on the second graphical display in response to coupling of the medical equipment to the equipment port for selection by a user of the type of medical equipment coupled to the equipment port. | 11-14-2013 |
| 20130335208 | PATIENT CONTROL MODULE WITH CELL AND SMART PHONE CAPABILITIES - A patent control module and associated system allows a patient in a hospital, clinic, or the like, to control room features, such as lights, televisions, and the like, as well as providing cell phone capabilities, such as being able to call or text their nurse, run cell phone applications, play games, and the like. The control module allows a patient to call or text their nurse directly and relay their needs. The cell phone features, such as applications, games and the like, can occupy the patient while they convalesce. The system can provide education modules to patients, where tracking cookies can keep track of those modules completed by patients. The system can provide patients access to their charts, past medical history, consent forms, intake paperwork, regulatory paperwork, and the like. | 12-19-2013 |
| 20140043150 | DUAL BAND NURSE CALL SYSTEM - A nurse call station and system capable of scalable accommodating a plurality of wireless nodes by incorporating a dual band of 900 MHz and 2.4 GHz for use in transmission and repeating an identification signal. The nurse call system is comprised of various components that includes but is not limited to gateway nodes, transmitter nodes, repeaters, end nodes and locators. Transmitter nodes may be comprised of various transmitter styles including wireless check in stations, wireless emergency call stations and resident bed stations. | 02-13-2014 |
| 20140085063 | DISTRIBUTED HEALTHCARE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A graphical audio station of a nurse call system is operable to permit a user to perform one or more of the following functions: establish a two-way voice communication link with another computer device in another patient and/or with a another computer device located in another staff work area and/or with a wireless communication device carried by caregiver and/or with a telephone of the healthcare facility; broadcast a voice page to a group of other selected computer devices; compose and send a text message to a portable device that is carried by a caregiver and that has wireless communication capability; browse web pages and/or view multimedia content, such as videos, hosted on servers of the healthcare facility and/or that are accessible via the Internet; view and/or acknowledge and/or answer and/or cancel alerts or nurse calls originating in a plurality of patient rooms. | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140091913 | HOSPITAL BED HAVING USER INPUT TO ENABLE AND SUSPEND REMOTE MONITORING OF ALERT CONDITIONS - A hospital bed has a bed frame and communication circuitry operable to transmit bed status data to a network of a healthcare facility and to receive messages from the network. The messages include information indicating whether bed status conditions are being monitored by a remote computer of the network for generation of alert messages to at least one caregiver in response to alert conditions being indicated by the bed status data. The bed has at least one user input that is used locally at the bed to enable and suspend monitoring of the bed status conditions by the remote computer. | 04-03-2014 |
| 20140240106 | NOTIFICATION APPARATUS, METHOD FOR PERFORMING NOTIFICATION AND ASSIST ROBOT ACTING AS THE SAME - In accordance with an embodiment, a notification apparatus comprises a detection module and a notification module. The detection module detects a predetermined operation confirmation sound from a medical instrument. The notification module sends a notification to a predetermined terminal in response to the detection of the operation confirmation sound. | 08-28-2014 |
| 20140266642 | CAREGIVER ROUNDING WITH REAL TIME LOCATING SYSTEM TRACKING - An information technology system for a healthcare facility is provided. The system includes a first computer device to keep track of rounding intervals for caregivers and to determine whether the caregivers successfully complete their rounds in a timely manner for their assigned patients. The system also has a real time locating system (RTLS) that tracks locations of the plurality of caregivers and that is in communication with the first computer device. The system further has a number of graphical displays in communication with the first computer device. Each graphical display is operable to display a list of patients for whom rounds are due and to display reminder messages to the plurality of caregivers relating to rounding. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140266643 | HOSPITAL BED FOR RECEIVING DATA FROM THIN PATCH WIRELESS SENSORS - A communication system for a patient support apparatus that is operable to inductively power sensors coupled to a patient to periodically gather data from the sensors. The communication system is operable to associate the sensor data with a patient and the patient support apparatus and transfer the associated data to a hospital information system. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140347174 | USER STATION FOR HEALTHCARE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A user station configurable for use in a healthcare communication system, such as a nurse call system, is provided. | 11-27-2014 |
| 20150022330 | HEALTHCARE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM HAVING CONFIGURABLE ALARM RULES - A system that monitors various conditions of a plurality of hospital beds located in different rooms of a healthcare facility is provided. Alternatively or additionally, other types of equipment may be monitored by the system. Various configurations of network interface units that are coupleable to or integrated into a hospital bed are also disclosed. The system receives data from the hospital beds and/or other equipment and initiates a communication to a wireless communication device of at least one designated caregiver in response to the received data being indicative of an alarm condition. | 01-22-2015 |
| 20160022226 | NOTIFICATION SYSTEM OF DEVIATION FROM PREDEFINED CONDITIONS - The present invention includes a healthcare system for capturing and maintaining patient healthcare records and employing information in the records to proactively alert hospital workers to a condition that places patient health at risk. | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160027277 | ALERT MANAGEMENT UTILIZING MOBILE DEVICES - Methods, computer systems, and computer-storage medium are provided for managing patient alerts using a mobile device. A mobile device associated with a patient caregiver receives a critical alert related to the patient, and the alert is presented on the mobile device. The alert includes important contextual information that enables the caregiver to make a quick assessment of how to effectively address the alert. The alert includes options for accepting the alert or rejecting the alert. Acceptance of the alert enables the caregiver to communicate the alert to selected caregivers that can assist in managing the alert. Rejecting the alert causes the alert to be automatically communicated to additional caregivers associated with patient. | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160027289 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication system permits communication between hospital staff and a patient, while allowing for communication between at least two staff members and the patient, and permitting efficient determination of the type and urgency of the service needed by the patient. | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160038080 | Hand-Held Communicator for Patient Use - A patient communicator device provides the ability for non-verbal communication between a patient and medical personnel. The device includes a handgrip module that is held by the patient and a display unit for use by the medical personnel, with a communication link coupling the two components together. The handgrip module is formed of a deformable material and encases a power source (i.e., battery) and a pressure-activated switch. The patient squeezes the handgrip module to close the switch and transmit a signal to the display unit. For example, one squeeze may be used to indicate that everything is fine, two squeezes may be used to indicate that the patient is feeling an uncomfortable amount of pain and needs additional medication. These “squeeze” signals take the form of pulses that are passed to the display unit so that the medical personnel remains apprised of the patient's condition, allowing the patient to communicate regarding issues such as anxiety, pain or discomfort. | 02-11-2016 |
| 20160110509 | CAREGIVER ROUNDING COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An information technology system for a healthcare facility is provided. The system includes a first computer device to keep track of rounding intervals for caregivers and to determine whether the caregivers successfully complete their rounds in a timely manner for their assigned patients. The system also has a real time locating system (RTLS) that tracks locations of the plurality of caregivers and that is in communication with the first computer device. The system further has a number of graphical displays in communication with the first computer device. Each graphical display is operable to display a list of patients for whom rounds are due and to display reminder messages to the plurality of caregivers relating to rounding. | 04-21-2016 |
| 20160113595 | PROCESSING STATUS INFORMATION OF A MEDICAL DEVICE | 04-28-2016 |
| 20160117901 | MANAGING THE DELIVERY OF ALERT MESSAGES BY AN INTELLIGENT EVENT NOTIFICATION SYSTEM - A healthcare system includes an event notification system (ENS) and a real-time location (RTL) system. The ENS operates to receive event messages from an event generation device that includes the identity of a clinical event instance, the location of the clinical event source and timestamp information associated with the event, and it operates to receive tag message information that includes the identity of a caregiver associated with the tag, the current location of the tag and timestamp information. Alert message logic operates on the clinical event information and the tag information to determine whether an alert message should be sent to a caregiver currently attending to a patient. | 04-28-2016 |
| 20160125728 | PATIENT ALARM SYSTEM AND DEVICE THEREFOR - An activation device for a patient alarm system. The activation device comprises a resiliently deformable bladder defining an internal volume and a pressure switch in fluid communication with the internal volume and connected to an alarm system. Squeezing the resiliently deformable bladder operates the pressure switch, which activates the alarm system. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160148496 | System For Convergence Of Alarms From Medical Equipment - A device for processing alarms includes a processor and a computer-readable medium storing instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform various operations. The operations include receiving a first alarm from a first diagnostic device and determining a location associated with a first user. When the location associated with the first user is determined to be proximate to a device, the operations further include presenting a first verbal alert indicating that the first diagnostic device is presenting the first alarm. When the location associated with the first user is determined to be not proximate to the device, the operations further include sending a first notification message to a first mobile device of the first user indicating that the first diagnostic device is presenting the first alarm. | 05-26-2016 |
| 20160166214 | DISTRIBUTED HEALTHCARE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | 06-16-2016 |
| 340286090 | Restaurant | 3 |
| 20080246592 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING CUSTOMER QUEUING - A system and method for managing customer queuing is provided. A new request is received from a user. The new request is assigned to a queue. Placed requests waiting in the queue ahead of the new request are counted. The placed requests are compared to a request threshold. An upsell is provided to the user when the placed requests exceed the request threshold. The new request is released from the queue. The new request is satisfied by providing a response to the user. | 10-09-2008 |
| 20090237224 | I-COMPANION - A system and method is provided to facilitate the owners of the restaurants in managing their restaurant business and facilitate customers of the restaurants in at least placing orders. The system comprises a local server, plurality of hand held devices and an internet based application. The local server is associated with a restaurant. The restaurant has a plurality of hand held devices, the hand held devices facilitating a customer of the restaurant to place orders in the restaurant by communicating with the local server. The internet based application is deployed on a server; the internet based application sends data to the local server and receives data from the local server. | 09-24-2009 |
| 20140292500 | RESTAURANT SERVICE INDICATOR SYSTEM METHOD AND KIT - A restaurant service indicator system method and kit includes a table unit having a processor, memory, a request sent indicator and transmitter that are communicatively linked to server unit having a processor, memory, table status indicator and receiver. | 10-02-2014 |
