Personal Area Network Pairing
First Claim
1. A method for automatically re-identifying a first sensor device in a first personal area network in a healthcare application, the method comprising:
- placing the first sensor device on a patient'"'"'s body, the first sensor device being included in the first personal area network;
removing the first sensor device from the patient'"'"'s body to disconnect the first sensor device from the first personal area network; and
after the first sensor device is removed from the patient'"'"'s body, re-attaching the first sensor device to the patient'"'"'s body, the re-attaching of the first sensor device to the patient'"'"'s body reconnecting the first sensor device to the first personal area network.
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Abstract
A method for automatically adding a first sensor device to a first personal area network in a healthcare application includes receiving a signal with out-of-band pairing data at the first sensor device. The first sensor device is disposed on a patient'"'"'s body. The out-of-band pairing data is injected into the patient'"'"'s body by a second sensor device disposed on the patient'"'"'s body. Pairing data is extracted from the received signal at the first sensor device. Using the pairing data, the first sensor device is added to the first personal area.
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15 Claims
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1. A method for automatically re-identifying a first sensor device in a first personal area network in a healthcare application, the method comprising:
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placing the first sensor device on a patient'"'"'s body, the first sensor device being included in the first personal area network; removing the first sensor device from the patient'"'"'s body to disconnect the first sensor device from the first personal area network; and after the first sensor device is removed from the patient'"'"'s body, re-attaching the first sensor device to the patient'"'"'s body, the re-attaching of the first sensor device to the patient'"'"'s body reconnecting the first sensor device to the first personal area network. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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5. A method for automatically determining if physiological sensors are detecting physiological data from the same patient, the method comprising:
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placing a first sensor device on a patient'"'"'s body, the first sensor device adapted for joining a first personal area network; placing a second sensor device on the patient'"'"'s body, the second sensor device adapted for joining the first personal area network; measuring first physiological data from the patient'"'"'s body using the first sensor device; measuring second physiological data from the patient'"'"'s body using the second sensor device; correlating the first and second physiological data of the first and second sensor devices; determining whether the first and second sensor devices are associated with the same patient based on correlation of the first and second physiological data. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A method for automatically identifying a patient in a healthcare application, the method comprising:
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attaching a wristband to a patient, the wristband adapted to provide out-of-band pairing data; coupling a sensor device to the wristband, the sensor device detecting the out-of-band pairing data; attaching the sensor device to the patient'"'"'s body; detecting a personal area network that uses the detected out-of-band pairing data; and joining the personal area network that uses the detected out-of-band pairing data. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12)
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13. A method for detecting and displaying the names of patients proximal to a detector, the method comprising:
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providing to a user a detecting device for discovering one or more personal area networks, each of the one or more personal area networks having a unique network identifier; discovering, at the detecting device, one or more personal area networks; obtaining the network identifier for each of the one or more personal area networks that are discovered at the detecting device; for each obtained network identifier, obtaining one or more patient identifiers that are uniquely associated with the obtained network identifier; and displaying a list of the obtained patient identifiers. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15)
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