	US 12,230,373 B1
	Communications system, devices, methods, and techniques
David Linetsky, Hagerstown, MD (US); Timothy Allen Rollins, Hancock, MD (US); and Andrew Paul Hoffman, Smithsburg, MD (US)
Assigned to Specialized Communications, Inc., Smithsburg, MD (US)
Filed by Specialized Communications, Inc., Smithsburg, MD (US)
Filed on Apr. 17, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/301,528.
Application 18/301,528 is a continuation of application No. 17/071,541, filed on Oct. 15, 2020, granted, now 11,631,480.
Application 17/071,541 is a continuation of application No. 15/227,665, filed on Aug. 3, 2016, abandoned.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/200,469, filed on Aug. 3, 2015.
Int. Cl. G16H 10/60 (2018.01); G06F 3/0481 (2022.01); G06F 3/14 (2006.01); G06F 40/205 (2020.01); G16H 40/63 (2018.01); G16H 50/30 (2018.01)

CPC G16H 10/60 (2018.01) [G06F 3/0481 (2013.01); G06F 3/14 (2013.01); G06F 40/205 (2020.01); G16H 40/63 (2018.01); G16H 50/30 (2018.01)]

25 Claims

1. An automated medical communications system comprising:

an automated medical communications board controller device comprising:

a board controller network communications interface device to receive data packets from a first data source and a second data source;

a storage device to store a medical communication interface storage structure; and

a board controller device operatively connected to the board controller network communications interface device and the storage device, wherein the board control device performs operations comprising:

parsing the data packets to extract information according to whether the data packets came from the first data source or the second data source;

storing, at the storage device, the extracted information from the data packets;

determining a hazardous patient safety condition exists, wherein determining a hazardous patient safety condition exists further comprises:

receiving a reading of state of a medical device;

receiving patient information corresponding to a status of the patient;

determining that the reading of the medical device and the received patient information, taken together, indicate a hazardous safety condition, wherein the hazardous patient safety condition corresponds to a state of the medical device; and

indicating the hazardous safety condition; and

transmitting a content payload; and

a medical communications board device comprising:

a medical board network communications interface to receive the content payload;

a digital display;

a medical board control device operatively coupled to the medical board network communications interface and the digital display, wherein the medical board control device performs operations comprising:

receiving the transmitted content payload; and

rendering the content payload on the digital display, wherein the rendered content includes patient information, corresponding medical device information, and an indication of the hazardous safety condition.