Appeal No. 2006-0479
Application No. 10/309,274
numbers either sequentially increase or decrease to thereby
signify a relative location of each respective one of the rooms
with respect to the entrance, an exit of the medical facility,
and each of the other rooms in the medical facility, wherein the
medical facility includes: i) a main corridor that extends in a
substantially straight manner from the entrance to the
exit of the medical facility, and ii) a plurality of hallways
that extend substantially perpendicular from the main corridor at
different locations off the main corridor;
b) providing all patients in the medical facility and all
medical staff within the medical facility with electronic cards
that are used to determine a particular location of each of the
patients and each of the medical staff within the medical
facility at any particular moment in time;
c) providing all of the rooms within the medical facility
with card receiving devices that are capable of reading
electronic card information to thereby provide information to a
specific site in the medical facility with regards to which
persons, if any, are currently located in each of the rooms of
the medical facility;
d) providing a plurality of room number range signs on a
wall of the main corridor adjacent to each of the plurality of
hallways, wherein each of the room number range signs includes a
room number range for all rooms that are directly accessible by
way of the corresponding one of the hallways that is adjacent to
the corresponding one of the room number range signs;
e) receiving a patient in a receiving area located adjacent
to the entrance of the medical facility, and providing the
patient with an electronic card to be carried by the patient at
all times within the medical facility;
f) based on the information obtained in step d), determining
if any of the rooms in the medical facility is available to
provide a particular treatment required for the patient, and if
one of the rooms is available, directing the patient to go to the
one of rooms in the medical facility and providing the patient
with the corresponding room number of the one of the rooms,
wherein the patient is able to travel from the receiving
area to the one of the rooms based solely on the corresponding
room number of the one of the rooms provided to the patient in
step f) and the room number range signs provided on the wall of
the main corridor that the patient views when traveling along the
main corridor to determine which of the room number range signs
has a room number range that includes the corresponding room
number that the patient is traveling to.
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