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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2017

Filed:

Mar. 09, 2011
Applicants:

Amjad A. Soomro, Hopewell Junction, NY (US);

Mark S. Kotfila, Chelmsford, MA (US);

Ruediger Schmitt, Maplewood, NJ (US);

Phillip Raymond, Windham, NH (US);

Inventors:

Amjad A. Soomro, Hopewell Junction, NY (US);

Mark S. Kotfila, Chelmsford, MA (US);

Ruediger Schmitt, Maplewood, NJ (US);

Phillip Raymond, Windham, NH (US);

Assignee:

KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven, NL;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08B 23/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); G08B 25/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/002 (2013.01); A61B 5/0006 (2013.01); A61B 5/0031 (2013.01); G08B 25/004 (2013.01);
Abstract

A patient monitor includes a plurality of monitoring devices which collect data about a patient. An evaluation unit determines the patient's condition from the collected data and generates an alarm if the patient's condition warrants notifying an appropriate medical responder. A communication unit which transmits the alarm to a access point over a hospital Internet protocol (IP) network, the communication device includes a first transmitter for transmitting the alarm using a primary link and a second transmitter for transmitting the alarm using a secondary link in response to the transmission using the primary link failing.


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