US 12,144,770 B2
System and method for connecting a patient support apparatus to a hospital network
Anouer Kebir, Saint-Jean-Chrysostome (CA); Steve Bolduc, Beaumont (CA); Esther Berthelot, Lévis (CA); Pascal Rousseau, Saint-Apollinaire (CA); Ahmed Atoubi, Saint-Nicolas (CA); Ghislain Demers, Beaumont (CA); and Jérôme Marcotte, Lévis (CA)
Assigned to UMANO MEDICAL INC., L'Islet (CA)
Appl. No. 17/769,283
Filed by UMANO MEDICAL INC., L'Islet (CA)
PCT Filed Oct. 16, 2020, PCT No. PCT/IB2020/059782
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 14, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/074895, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 22, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/923,292, filed on Oct. 18, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0329935 A1, Oct. 19, 2023
Int. Cl. A61G 7/05 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/11 (2006.01); A61G 7/018 (2006.01); G16H 20/40 (2018.01); G16H 40/20 (2018.01); G16H 40/63 (2018.01); G16H 40/67 (2018.01)
CPC A61G 7/0506 (2013.01) [G16H 20/40 (2018.01); G16H 40/20 (2018.01); G16H 40/63 (2018.01); G16H 40/67 (2018.01); A61B 5/002 (2013.01); A61B 5/1113 (2013.01); A61G 7/018 (2013.01)] 27 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of connecting a patient support apparatus to a communication network, the patient support apparatus comprising: a base, a patient support assembly mounted to the base, a patient support communication device comprising: a processor, a first wireless communication interface operatively connected to the processor and being configured to be activated to transmit and receive a first type of wireless signal, and a second wireless communication interface operatively connected to the processor and being configured to be activated to transmit a second type of wireless signal, the patient support apparatus being electrically connectable to a power source, the method being executed by the processor, the method comprising:
receiving an electrical connection indication of an electrical connection of the patient support apparatus to a wireless node to receive electrical power therefrom, the wireless node being electrically connected to a facility power source, the wireless node being connected to the communication network;
in response to the receiving the electrical connection indication of the electrical connection of the patient support apparatus to the wireless node:
causing activation of the first wireless communication interface;
receiving, from the wireless node, a first wireless signal, the first wireless signal being of the first type of wireless signal;
in response to the receiving the first wireless signal: causing transmission of a second wireless signal of the first type, the transmitting thereby connecting the patient support apparatus to the wireless node;
receiving an electrical disconnection indication of the patient support apparatus being electrically disconnected from the wireless node; and
in response to the receiving the electrical disconnection indication of the electrical disconnection:
causing activation of the second wireless communication interface.