Patent ID: 6128492
Filing Date: 2000-10-03
Classification: G16H,H04W

Abstract:
A method for tracing a centralized process position of a mobile station using a radio LAN, comprising the steps of:completing an initialization procedure by inputting information concerning a patient into a home position access point and a mobile station and registering the information;requesting the mobile station to be associated with the home position access point after initializing the mobile station;confirming if the mobile station is registered, sending an association confirmation signal when the mobile station is registered and requesting medical doctors or nurses to register the mobile station when the mobile station is not registered;in a first checking step checking periodically if the mobile station received a beacon signal of the access point after receiving an association confirmation signal from a home position registration device;in a second checking step checking if a basic service network identifier is identified by checking and adjusting an access point identifier and basic service network identifier when the mobile station received a beacon signal as a result of the first checking step;adjusting a synchronous clock when the basic service network identifier is identified as a result of the second checking step;in a third checking step requesting a trunk access point to reassociate when the basic service network identifier is not identified as a result of the second checking step, and checking if confirmation response for the reassociation from the trunk access point was received;adjusting the synchronous clock when the confirmation response is received from the trunk access point as a result of the third checking step, and if not, informing the network of this and performing maintenance;checking the synchronous clock and adjusting if necessary when the basic service network identifier is identified as a result of the second checking step; andadjusting a radio channel and clock and checking repeatedly if the beacon signal is received when beacon information of the access point is not received, and then performing the first checking step if the beacon information was received, and if not, checking the mobile station in the maintenance procedure.