Abstract: A method for facilitating coexistence of wireless technologies competing for the same bandwidth includes, with a first component (14) residing in a first wireless network (20), initializing the first wireless network (20) with a superframe period (38) based on a superframe period (28) of a second wireless network (10) and communicating information over the first wireless network (20) within the Contention Free Period period (46) of the superframe period (38) of the first wireless network (20), and, with a second component (4) residing in the second wireless network (10), communicating information over the second wireless network (10) within the Contention Access Period (44) of the superframe period (38), the Contention Free Period (46) and the Contention Access Period (44) being distinct regions of the superframe period (38) of the first wireless network (20).

Abstract: A high percentage of preventable medical errors occur due to poor communication during the period when patient care is handed from one caregiver to another. Electronic annotations from patient specific body sensor networks are created and classified according to the caregiver and the urgency of the annotation to ensure that no information goes unnoticed during the transfer of care. Sensors (10) of each body sensor network store the annotations, and share the annotations with all the other sensors in the network. The sensors (10) communicate wirelessly with a monitor (12), nurses station (14) a portable device (16) or other device (19) associated with a medical facility network to display the annotations for the caregiver on an associated display (12a, 14a, 16a, 19a). The caregiver can view, create, edit, and delete annotations with input devices (12b, 14b, 16b, 19b) as appropriate.

Abstract: A patient monitoring system (8) monitors health related parameters of a patient (10). A medical device (12) obtains measurements of the health related parameters of the patient (10). A first mobile device (16), associated with the patient (10), wirelessly collects and transmits the health related parameters of the patient (10). A second mobile device (22), in operative communication with first mobile device, receives the transmitted health related parameters of the patient.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method, a client device (CL) and a computer program product for determining the need for requesting network configuration information from a network. The client device includes memories (M1, M2) comprising network identifying data (NI) and corresponding configuration data, and a control unit (CO). The control unit orders the connection of the client device to a network, compares first network identifying data associated with said network with second locally stored network identifying data from a memory and uses locally stored network configuration data associated with said second network identifying data for obtaining services if said first network identifying data and said second network identifying data correspond to each other. Because of this the number of searches in a network is limited in case the client device has previous knowledge about the network.

Abstract: A method for facilitating coexistence of wireless technologies competing for the same bandwidth includes, with a first component (14) residing in a first wireless network (20), initializing the first wireless network (20) with a superframe period (38) based on a superframe period (28) of a second wireless network (10) and communicating information over the first wireless network (20) within the Contention Free Period period (46) of the superframe period (38) of the first wireless network (20), and, with a second component (4) residing in the second wireless network (10), communicating information over the second wireless network (10) within the Contention Access Period (44) of the superframe period (38), the Contention Free Period (46) and the Contention Access Period (44) being distinct regions of the superframe period (38) of the first wireless network (20).