Paging-based backchannel in a medical telemetry system
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1. A patient monitoring system, comprising:
- a multiport transmitter for carrying out a patient monitoring function; and
a backchannel receiver module operable for receiving a backchannel transmission, translating the received backchannel transmission to provide respective backchannel information, and providing the backchannel information to the multiport transmitter;
wherein the backchannel transmission is received in the form of a signal on paging-based communications channel.
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Abstract
A flexible patient monitoring system which interfaces a telemetry subsystem with a communications network by way of a telemetry transmission receiving system and a network controller. The telemetry subsystem includes one or more monitoring instruments, a multiport transmitter, a telemetry subsystem interface, a backchannel receiver module, and a telemetry docking station. Wireless communications between the telemetry subsystem and various nodes on the network are thus enabled. A backchannel communications link on a paging-based communications channel is provided to permit information to be transmitted from a node on the communications network to the multiport transmitter.
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1. A patient monitoring system, comprising:
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a multiport transmitter for carrying out a patient monitoring function; and a backchannel receiver module operable for receiving a backchannel transmission, translating the received backchannel transmission to provide respective backchannel information, and providing the backchannel information to the multiport transmitter; wherein the backchannel transmission is received in the form of a signal on paging-based communications channel. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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