Patent 7310541 was granted and assigned to Vocera Communications on December, 2007 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A wireless communication system has a central computer, one or more wireless access points and one or more personal badges that communicate wirelessly with the one or more wireless access points. The badges provide the user with a communications device that permits the user to initiate telephone calls and conferences, receive telephone calls, receive pages and be located within a particular environment.