Hospital tv/monitor display control with hierarchical access control
AssigneeKoninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
InventorBrian Rosenfeld
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Abstract
An interactive communication system (400) includes a plurality of in-room video communications system (1250) each including an audio microphone (460), a video camera (440), an audio speaker (470), a patient operated control (420) and a television/video monitor (430). The message sender, e.g. a medical professional, enters a request to contact a selected patient at a terminal (190). A hierarchical access control (130, 135) arbitrates among persons trying to reach a patient based on an accesses hierarchy (200). The requester with the highest role in the hierarchy establishes a video communication link with the patient and appears on the television monitor (430) in place of previously viewed video entertainment.
Claims18
An interactive communications system comprising:
- a plurality of in-room video communications systems, each in-room video communication system including a video monitor, a video camera, a microphone, and an audio speaker associated with a patient;
- a video selection unit which supplies at least video communications to each of the in-room systems;
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- a hierarchal access control unit which arbitrates among the video communications based on a defined access hierarchy.
An interactive communication method for providing an in-room audio and video communications, the method comprising:
- entering data related to a patient admitted to hospital;
- establishing a permissions hierarchy including at least one of a system administrator role, a primary care physician role, and a patient role;
- consulting the permissions hierarchy via a hierarchical access control unit to arbitrate among persons requesting video communications access to the patient and video entertainment;
- establishing a video communications link from a requesting person to an in-room video communications system including a camera, a microphone, a television monitor, a patient operated control, and an audio speaker.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.