Patent ID: 9504388
Filing Date: 2016-11-29
CPC Classification: A61B,G16H,H04Q,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method for automatically re-identifying a first sensor device in a first personal area network of a patient after the first sensor has been temporarily removed from the patient in a healthcare application, the method comprising: upon placement of the first sensor device on the patient's body, including the first sensor device being included in the first personal area network using an out-of-band pairing data wherein the out-of-band pairing data received at the first sensor device is included in an out-of-band signal injected into the patient's body by a second sensor device disposed on the patient's body; upon temporarily removal of the first sensor device from the patient's body, disconnecting the first sensor device from the first personal area network, wherein, when the first sensor device is removed from the patient's body, a periodic confirmation, injected into the patient's body by the second sensor device, that the first sensor device is attached to the patient's body fails; upon re-attachment of the first sensor device to the patient's body: upon attachment of the first sensor device to a second patient's body, the second patient's body being different from the patient's body, transmitting, by the first sensor device, an alert to a computing device to indicate the first sensor device being attached to a wrong patient.