Republic Wireless, Inc.

Hill-rom Services, Inc.

Brandon Smith

Sai Gopala Rathnam

Justin Milam

Jared Kashimba

Charles Marcel Kinard

Jon Schniepp

Greg Stephens

Travis Morton

Matthews Abraham

Andrew Gulino

Aaron Medford

Shawn Starler

Sam Thomas

Matthew Wood

Adam Ross Cook

Steven D Baker

Timothy Joseph Receveur

Eric D Agdeppa

Thomas A Myers

Douglas A Seim

Kenzi L Mudge

Varad Narayan Srivastava

Frederick Collin Davidson

Kiana Mathews Dezelon

Britten J Pipher

Bradley T Smith

Stephen R Embree

Andrew S Robinson

John S Schroder

Jennifer A Gunn

Laura A Hassey

Pamela Wells

Ryan Patrick McShane

Sam Quaile

Elizabeth A Kowal

Tanya M Hawthorne

Carl Nelson

High-accuracy locating systems and methods are used for determining successful caregiver rounding, monitoring whether housekeepers have properly cleaned patient beds, or determining whether patients have ambulated sufficient distances during recovery. Patient beds having at least two locating tags are used for establishing patient care zones around the patient beds. Locating anchors and equipment tags are moved around a patient room to determine optimum locating anchor placement within the patient room based on signal quality values. A locating tag on a patient bed switches roles to operate as a locating anchor in response to the patient bed becoming stationary. A locating tag has a digital compass which is used to determine a field of good ranging relative to a front of a caregiver wearing the locating tag.

Ultra-wideband locating systems and methods

Techniques are disclosed for managing communication channels in a communication system that includes communication devices and a communication server. In one embodiment, a communication device may receive an invitation to join a new communication channel, the invitation comprising a universal resource locator (URL) link to a location that contains instructions for joining the new communication channel. The communication device may then launch a companion application in response to activating the URL link where the companion application may be associated with an account administered by a communications server. The companion application may be configured to manage one or more communication devices. A user may select from among the communication devices managed by the companion application to be added to the new communication channel and send, to the communication server, an acceptance to the invitation to join the new communication channel. The acceptance may include an identity of the selected communication devices to add to the new communication channel.

Voice channel management in a communication system

Various embodiments are directed to techniques for enhanced call routing for groups. Some embodiments are particularly directed to a connection manager that can identify one or more secondary telephony endpoints to invite to join a call based on one or more routing policies. One or more embodiments described herein may include a connection manager that provides customizable extension capabilities to a wireless cellular phone. The systems, devices, and methods described herein may be embodied in and performed by communication devices, telecommunications servers, and other devices, and software instructions executed by some or all of such devices.

Techniques for enhanced call routing for groups

Examples are disclosed for responding to voice commands within an existing telephony call between two or more end user communication devices mediated by an IP based communications server. The server is mediating a telephony call among the two or more end user communication devices where each end user communication device has its own communication link to the server. The server may detect a trigger event from one of the end user communication devices. Upon detecting the trigger event, the server may receive voice input over the communication link from the end user communication device that generated the trigger event. The received voice input may be parsed into one or more voice commands. The server may then cause the one or more voice commands to be executed. In other embodiments, much of the intelligence and processing may be carried out on the end user communication device directly.

Techniques for integrating voice control into an active telephony call

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Cary, NC, United States of America

Brandon Smith