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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 07, 2018
Hill-rom Services, Inc., Batesville, IN (US);
Williams F. Collins, Jr., Columbus, IN (US);
James M. Allen, Batesville, IN (US);
Keith A. Huster, Sunman, IN (US);
Carl W. Riley, Milan, IN (US);
Patricia A. Glidewell, Cary, NC (US);
Irvin J. Vanderpohl, III, Greensburg, IN (US);
Richard J. Schuman, Cary, NC (US);
Benjamin E. Howell, Fuquay-Varina, NC (US);
Timothy D. Wildman, Metamora, IN (US);
Hill-Rom Services, Inc., Batesville, IN (US);
Abstract
A hospital bed is programmable with new firmware that is downloaded to the bed over a network. The firmware is downloaded to the bed automatically from a remote computer device. The remote computer device receives a message from the hospital bed which includes data regarding the version number of the bed's current firmware, and if the version number indicates that the firmware is an outdated version, the remote computer device downloads a new version of the firmware to the bed.