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Wireless lan system with cellular architecture

  • US 20010034475A1
  • Filed: 04/18/2001
  • Published: 10/25/2001
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/13/1995
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A medical telemetry system for permitting the real-time monitoring of patients of a medical facility from a centralized monitoring station, comprising:

  • at least one monitoring station which displays the real-time physiologic data of the patients;

    a plurality of battery-powered wireless remote telemeters, the remote telemeters attaching to respective patients and configured to collect and transmit physiologic data of the patients; and

    a plurality of transceivers which communicate bi-directionally with the plurality of remote telemeters using a wireless time division multiple access (TDMA) protocol, the transceivers connected to the at least one monitoring station and being distributed throughout the medical facility such that different transceivers provide coverage for different areas of the medical facility, the transceivers configured to receive the physiologic data transmitted by the remote telemeters and to forward the physiologic data to the at least one monitoring station.

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