Patent 10474808 was granted and assigned to Hill-Rom on November, 2019 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A system includes a remote computer device and a patient bed in communication with the remote computer device. The patient bed has circuitry operable by a user to obtain at least one software application from the remote computer device. The system also has an authentication software module that verifies that the at least one software application is authorized for use on the patient bed.