Patent ID: 9338583
Filing Date: 2016-05-10
CPC Classification: A61B,G16H,H04W,Y02D

Claim Text:
1. A method of transferring a patient monitoring sensor group between fixed and mobile modes of communication with a wired healthcare network, comprising: detecting the sensor group, which comprises one or more patient-mounted sensors and a mobile aggregator sensor, within communication range of a fixed aggregator module; informing the mobile aggregator sensor that it and the one or more patient-mounted sensors are within range of the fixed aggregator module; when the fixed aggregator module is within range, communicating status information from the sensor group to a wired network via the fixed aggregator module while bypassing the mobile aggregator sensor; and terminating a mobile aggregator personal area network (MA-PAN), which is used for communication between the sensor group and the mobile aggregator sensor, when the sensor group is within range of the fixed aggregator module in order to conserve battery power at the mobile aggregator sensor.