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US 7,539,533 B2Granted
Mesh network monitoring appliance
OwnerBao Traninventor
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Abstract
A health care monitoring system for a person includes one or more wireless nodes forming a wireless mesh network; a wearable appliance having a sound transducer coupled to the wireless transceiver; and a bioelectric impedance (BI) sensor coupled to the wireless mesh network to communicate BI data over the wireless mesh network to detect a heart attack or a stroke attack.
Claims20
A heart monitoring system for a person, comprising:
- one or more wireless nodes forming a wireless mesh network;
- and
- a wearable appliance having:
- a wearable wireless transceiver adapted to communicate with the one or more wireless nodes;
- and
- a wearable bioelectric impedance (BI) sensor positioned near a heart or a brain to detect heart attack or stroke attack, respectively, the BI sensor coupled to the wearable wireless transceiver to communicate BI data over the wireless mesh network;
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- a wearable power source to power the wearable wireless transceiver and wearable BI sensor.
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A monitoring system for a person, comprising:
- one or more wireless mesh network nodes;
- and
- a wearable appliance having:
- a sound transducer coupled to the person and to the wireless mesh network nodes to provide audio communication over a public telephone network;
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- a bioelectric impedance sensor coupled to the wireless mesh network nodes and coupled to the person's skin to determine one of:
- total body water, compartmentalization of body fluids, cardiac activity, blood flow, skinfold thickness, dehydration, blood loss, wound monitoring, ulcer detection, deep vein thrombosis, hypovolemia, hemorrhage, blood loss, heart attack, stroke attack.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.