Providing an alert to a person in a distressed situation

• US 10,008,089 B2
• Filed: 06/28/2016
• Issued: 06/26/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 06/28/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyndryl Incorporated
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Brown, Michael Sean, Harrer, Stefan, Plant, Laurence J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Yacob, Sisay
• Application Number:
  US15/195,994
• Publication Number:
  US 20170372584A1
• Time in Patent Office: 728 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/00 Measuring for diagnostic purposes radiation diagnosis A61B6/00; diagnosis by ultrasonic, sonic or infrasonic waves A61B8/00; Identification of persons
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0002 Remote monitoring of patients using telemetry, e.g. transmission of vital signals via a communication network A61B5/07 takes precedence; transmission systems for measured values G08C; transmission H04B; transmission of digital information H04L; wireless communication networks H04W
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0205 Simultaneously evaluating both cardiovascular conditions and different types of body conditions, e.g. heart and respiratory condition
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1118 Determining activity level
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0415 detecting absence of activity per se
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0446 worn on the body to detect changes of posture, e.g. a fall, inclination, acceleration, gait
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0453 worn on the body to detect health condition by physiological monitoring, e.g. electrocardiogram, temperature, breathing detecting, measuring or recording for diagnostic purposes A61B5/00
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/016 Personal emergency signalling and security systems emergency non-personal manually actuated alarm activators G08B25/12
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 25/63 for estimating an emotional state

Abstract

A system for providing an alert to a user which includes a sensor for sensing user data pertaining to a user'"'"'s condition; and a non-transitory storage medium that stores instructions. Also included is a processor that executes the instructions to: monitor the user data from the sensor for predefined conditions, at least one predefined condition pertaining to a mental state of the user; autonomously evaluate the user data for the predefined conditions; autonomously identify the predefined condition that matches the user'"'"'s condition; autonomously determine a predefined alert corresponding to the predefined condition and to the user'"'"'s condition to interact with the user to calm the user; and autonomously administer the predefined alert to the user.

Claims

1. A system for providing an alert to a user comprising:

at least one sensor for sensing user data pertaining to a user'"'"'s condition;

at least one non-transitory storage medium that stores instructions; and

at least one processer that executes the instructions to;

monitor the user data from the at least one sensor for predefined conditions, at least one predefined condition pertaining to a mental state of the user;

autonomously evaluate the user data for the predefined conditions;

autonomously identify the predefined condition that matches the user'"'"'s condition;

autonomously determine a predefined alert corresponding to the predefined condition and to the user'"'"'s condition to interact with the user to calm the user; and

autonomously administer the predefined alert to the user.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the user data includes user medical data and environmental data in proximity to the user.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein there are a plurality of sensors, at least one sensor senses user medical data and at least one sensor senses environmental data in proximity to the user.

4. The system of claim 1, further comprising a microphone and wherein the at least one processing unit further executes the instructions to translate speech input to the microphone to text and to understand a meaning or an intent of the speech.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein autonomously identify the predefined condition includes to determine a mental state of the user by a tone of a voice of the user, the meaning or intent of the speech and an analysis of the user data compared with models of different mental states.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the at least one processing unit further executes the instructions to record the mental state of the user over time.

7. The system of claim 5, further comprising a speaker and wherein to administer the predefined alert includes predefined text scripts to play through the speaker to the user to calm the user.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the system is wearable.

9. The system of claim 1, further comprising autonomously providing an alert to a third party.

10. A computer implemented method for providing an alert to a user comprising:

monitoring user data from the user for predefined conditions, at least one predefined condition pertaining to a mental state of the user;

autonomously evaluating the user data for the predefined conditions;

autonomously identifying the predefined condition that matches the user'"'"'s condition;

autonomously determining a predefined alert corresponding to the predefined condition and to the user'"'"'s condition to interact with the user to calm the user; and

autonomously administering the predefined alert to the user.

11. The computer implemented method of claim 10, wherein the user data includes user medical data and environmental data in proximity to the user.

12. The computer implemented method of claim 10, further comprising translating speech received from the user to text and understanding a meaning or an intent of the speech.

13. The computer implemented method of claim 12, wherein autonomously identifying the predefined condition includes determining a mental state of the user by a tone of a voice of the user, the meaning or intent of the speech and an analysis of the user data compared with models of different mental states.

14. The computer implemented method of claim 13, further comprising recording the mental state of the user over time.

15. The computer implemented method of claim 13, wherein administering the predefined action includes playing predefined text scripts to the user to calm the user.

16. A computer program product for providing an alert to a user comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a processor to cause the processor to perform a method comprising:

monitoring user data from the user for predefined conditions, at least one predefined condition pertaining to a mental state of the user;

autonomously evaluating the user data for the predefined conditions;

autonomously identifying the predefined condition that matches the user'"'"'s condition;

autonomously determining a predefined alert corresponding to the predefined condition and to the user'"'"'s condition to interact with the user to calm the user; and

autonomously administering the predefined alert to the user.

17. The computer program product of claim 16, wherein the user data includes user medical data and environmental data in proximity to the user.

18. The computer program product of claim 16, further comprising translating speech received from the user to text and understanding a meaning or an intent of the speech.

19. The computer program product of claim 18, wherein autonomously identifying the predefined condition includes determining a mental state of the user by a tone of a voice of the user, the meaning or intent of the speech and an analysis of the user data compared with models of different mental states.

20. The computer program product of claim 19, wherein administering the predefined action includes playing predefined text scripts to the user to calm the user.