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Association of support surfaces and beds

  • US 7,868,740 B2
  • Filed: 08/29/2007
  • Issued: 01/11/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/29/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A surface association system for a healthcare facility, comprisinga plurality of beds,a plurality of support surfaces to be placed upon beds of the plurality of beds, anda computing device to associate a support surface of the plurality of support surfaces with a bed of the plurality of beds based upon data received from one of the support surface and the bed, wherein the bed to be associated initiates a surface association request, the computing device, in response to the surface association request initiated by the bed, requests performance of one or more actions on the support surface to be associated with the bed in order to identify the support surface from the plurality of support surfaces, and the support surface to be associated provides the computing device with data indicative of the one or more actions in response to the one or more actions being performed.

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