Determining a value according to a statistical operation in a monitored living area

• US 20050278409A1
• Filed: 03/16/2005
• Published: 12/15/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 11/09/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Care Innovations LLC
• Original Assignee: Intel-GE Care Innovations, LLC (Intel Corporation)
• Inventors: Kutzik, David M., Glascock, Anthony P.
• Granted Patent: US 7,937,461 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/200
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0423 detecting deviation from an expected pattern of behaviour or schedule
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0484 Arrangements monitoring consumption of a utility or use of an appliance which consumes a utility to detect unsafe condition, e.g. metering of water, gas or electricity, use of taps, toilet flush, gas stove or electric kettle
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/13 delivered from dispensers
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/70 relating to mental therapies, e.g. psychological therapy or autogenous training
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/30 for calculating health indices; for individual health risk assessment

Abstract

A method for monitoring a user in a user living area in a system including a system controller having control parameters for controlling the operations of said system and a remote monitoring site, comprising; monitoring a user activity of said user; activating a control circuit in response to an occurrence of said user activity to provide user activity information to said system controller representative of said user activity; performing a statistical operation upon said user activity information to provide a statistical determination; and adjusting at least one of said control parameters in accordance with said statistical determination.

Claims

1-79. -79. (canceled)

80. A method for monitoring a user in a user living area in a system including a system controller having control parameters for controlling the operations of said system and a remote monitoring site, comprising;

(a) monitoring a user activity of said user;

(b) activating a control circuit in response to an occurrence of said user activity to provide user activity information to said system controller representative of said user activity;

(c) performing a statistical operation upon said user activity information to provide a statistical determination; and

(d) adjusting at least one of said control parameters in accordance with said statistical determination.

81. A method for monitoring a user in a user living area in a system including a system controller having control parameters for controlling the operations of said system and a remote monitoring site, wherein said user activity is a daily living activity.

82. A method for monitoring a user in a user living area in a system including a system controller having control parameters for controlling the operations of said system and a remote monitoring site, comprising;

(a) monitoring a user activity of said user;

(b) activating a control circuit in response to an occurrence of said user activity to provide user activity information to said system controller representative of said user activity;

(c) performing a statistical operation upon said user activity information to provide a statistical determination; and

(d) determining cognitive function information of said user in accordance with said statistical determination.

83. A method for monitoring a user in a user living area in a system including a system controller having control parameters for controlling the operations of said system and a remote monitoring site, wherein said user activity is a daily living activity.

84. A system for monitoring a user in a user living area said system including a remote monitoring site, comprising;

a system controller;

an activity detection subsystem decoupled from the user for monitoring a daily living activity of said user independently of physiological measurements;

said activity detection subsystem having at least one detector device capable of being activated in response to an occurrence of said daily living activity to provide information to said system controller representative of said daily living activity;

a control signal generated by said system controller in response to said information representative of said daily living activity;

a remotely received control signal received by said remote monitoring site by way of a control information communication channel in accordance with said control signal;

a report generator for generating a scheduled periodic report on said daily living activity, said report having collections of said information representative of said selected daily living activity.

85. The system of claim 84, further comprising a processor for performing a statistical operation upon said information representative of said daily living activity.

86. The system of claim 85, further comprising cognitive function information determined in accordance with said statistical operation.

87. The system of claim 85, further comprising control parameters that are adjusted in accordance with said statistical operation.

88. The system of claim 84, wherein said activity detection subsystem comprises a medication management system for determining medication use.

89. The system of claim 84, wherein the report generator is disposed at the user living area.

90. The system of claim 84, wherein said detector device comprises a sensor disposed at said user living area for sensing at said user living said occurrence of said daily living activity and determining at said user living area that said daily living activity has occurred.

91. The system of claim 90, wherein said sensor comprises a switch.

92. The system of claim 90, wherein further comprising a processor separate from said sensor and disposed at said remote monitoring site for receiving said remotely received control signal and determining at said remote monitoring site that said daily living activity has occurred in accordance with said remotely received control signal.

93. The system of claim 84, further comprising circuitry for intervening in said user living area in accordance with said scheduled periodic report.