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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 07, 2021
Filed:
Jan. 14, 2019
Stryker Corporation, Kalamazoo, MI (US);
John T. Shen, San Jose, CA (US);
Benjamin H. Feingold, Tucson, AZ (US);
David B. Bennett, Newbury Park, CA (US);
Rohitkumar Godhani, San Jose, CA (US);
Mithun Gundi, San Jose, CA (US);
Robert L. Jones, III, South Bend, IN (US);
Stryker Corporation, Kalamazoo, MI (US);
Abstract
A system for automatically establishing a network. The system includes a main device group including a main wireless transceiver device, a control device and a first network interface and a secondary device group including a secondary wireless transceiver device, a secondary device group slave device and a second network interface. The main wireless transceiver device wirelessly communicating with the secondary wireless transceiver device to instruct the main device group and the secondary device group to form a network wherein the control device communicates with the secondary device group slave device over the first network interface and the second network interface, respectively. The control device wirelessly controls functions of the secondary device group slave device with instructions sent over the network. The main wireless transceiver device only wirelessly communicates with the secondary wireless transceiver device when the main wireless transceiver device and the secondary wireless transceiver device are in a location.