Patent 8120471 was granted and assigned to Hill-Rom on February, 2012 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A system includes at least one computer device coupled to a hospital Ethernet, the hospital Ethernet having at least one wired access point and at least on wireless access point. The system also includes a hospital bed and a network interface unit (NIU) that facilitates communications from the hospital bed to the at least one computer device.