Appeal No. 96-0899
Application 07/863,216
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection
of claims 5 through 11. Claims 1 through 4, 12 and 13 have been
cancelled.
The invention pertains to a patient tracking system for
hospitals and is best understood from a review of representative
independent claim 5 reproduced as follows:
5. A hospital patient tracking system comprising in
combination:
a plurality of clusters of patient tracking modules,
each said patient tracking module comprising:
(a) a predetermined number of coded selectively
operable keys,
(b) a predetermined number of selectively operable
visual indicators associated on a one-to-one basis with said
coded selectively operable keys,
(c) a multi-character display,
a plurality of keyboard cluster controllers, each said
keyboard cluster controller being connected to said coded
selectively operable keys and said selectively operable visual
indicators and all of said patient tracking modules within an
associated cluster;
a like plurality of visual indicator cluster
controllers, each said visual indicator cluster controller being
connected to said coded selectively operable keys and said
selectively operable visual indicators in all of said patient
tracking modules within its associated cluster;
a like plurality of multi-character display cluster
controllers, each said multi-character display cluster controller
being connected to said multi-character display in all of said
patient tracking modules within an associated cluster;
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