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US 12,602,239 B2Granted
Systems and methods for resolving an error condition of a medical device
AssigneeHill-Rom Services, Inc.
InventorsJames D. Voll, Robert Mark Zerhusen, Nishita Vanita Shashikant
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Abstract
A system and method for resolving an error condition of a medical device includes the medical device, a mobile device, and a host computer. The medical device generates a machine readable code, the machine readable code is read by the mobile device, and the remote computer hosts a uniform resource locator (URL) associated with the machine readable code such that the mobile device can access the URL.
Claims20
A system comprising:
- a medical device including a control system having (i) a user interface having at least one display and (ii) at least one controller associated with a first functional subsystem, the controller including a first processor and a first memory device, the first memory device including instructions that, when executed by the first processor, cause the at least one controller to communicate a signal indicating a first error condition for the first functional subsystem to the user interface, the user interface including a second processor and a second memory device, the second memory device including instructions that, when executed by the second processor, cause the user interface to receive the signal indicating the first error condition from the at least one controller associated with a first functional subsystem and in response to the signal indicating the first error condition, generate and display machine readable indicia that is associated with a uniform resource locator (URL) related to the first error condition of the first functional subsystem;
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- a remote computer hosting an interactive menu driven webpage associated with the URL associated with the machine readable indicia;
- wherein, when the URL is directly accessed by an internet browser when a mobile computing device scans the machine readable indicia, the internet browser displays the menu driven webpage such that a user can interact with the menu driven webpage through the browser, the menu driven webpage operable to provide information specific to the first error condition communicated to the user interface to allow the user to identify and resolve the first error condition.
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A method of resolving an error condition of a medical device comprising:
- receiving a signal indicating a first error condition of a first functional subsystem by a user interface of the medical device;
- generating a man readable indication of the first error condition in response to the signal on a display of the user interface of the medical device;
- in response to an input from a user activating a help function while the first error condition is displayed, the user interface generating a machine readable code indicia and displaying on the display of the user interface of the medical device, the machine readable indicia corresponding to a uniform resource locator (URL) associated with the first error condition of the first functional subsystem;
- utilizing an optical detector to read the machine readable indicia, the optical detector configured to cause an internet browser to be opened and directed to the URL when the machine readable indicia is scanned;
- displaying, through the internet browser, a menu driven webpage associated with the URL;
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- providing, through the menu driven webpage, information specific to the first error condition.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.