Methods and systems for monitoring and modifying a combination treatment

• US 20090270694A1
• Filed: 09/30/2008
• Published: 10/29/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 04/24/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: The Invention Science Fund I, L.L.C. (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Searete LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Ishikawa, Muriel Y., Lord, Robert W., Levien, Royce A., Wood, Lowell L. JR., Hyde, Roderick A., Malamud, Mark A., Sweeney, Elizabeth A., Wood, Victoria Y.H., Leuthardt, Eric C.
• Application Number:
  US12/286,751
• Publication Number:
  US 20090270694A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/301
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 3/112 for measuring diameter of pupils
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/024 Detecting, measuring or recording pulse rate or heart rate A61B5/0205, A61B5/021 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/08 Detecting, measuring or recording devices for evaluating the respiratory organs A61B5/0205 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14532 for measuring glucose, e.g. by tissue impedance measurement
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/411 Detecting or monitoring allergy or intolerance reactions to an allergenic agent or substance
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/415 the glands, e.g. tonsils, adenoids or thymus
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/416 the spleen
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/418 lymph vessels, ducts or nodes
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4839 combined with drug delivery

Abstract

Methods, computer program products, and systems are described that include monitoring at least one health attribute of an individual during an artificial sensory experience, associating a characteristic of the artificial sensory experience with the at least one health attribute of the individual, and/or modifying at least one of a bioactive agent or the artificial sensory experience at least partly based on associating a characteristic of the artificial sensory experience with the at least one health attribute of the individual.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

monitoring at least one health attribute of an individual during an artificial sensory experience;

associating a characteristic of the artificial sensory experience with the at least one health attribute of the individual; and

modifying at least one of a bioactive agent or the artificial sensory experience at least partly based on associating a characteristic of the artificial sensory experience with the at least one health attribute of the individual.

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36. A system, comprising:

means for monitoring at least one health attribute of an individual during an artificial sensory experience;

means for associating a characteristic of the artificial sensory experience with the at least one health attribute of the individual; and

means for modifying at least one of a bioactive agent or the artificial sensory experience at least partly based on associating a characteristic of the artificial sensory experience with the at least one health attribute of the individual.

37. The system of claim 36, wherein means for monitoring at least one health attribute of an individual during an artificial sensory experience comprises:

means for receiving data from an automated medical device.

38. The system of claim 36, wherein means for monitoring at least one health attribute of an individual during an artificial sensory experience comprises:

means for monitoring at least one of physical activity, body weight, body mass index number, heart rate, blood oxygen level, or blood pressure temporally associated with an artificial sensory experience.

39. The system of claim 36, wherein means for monitoring at least one health attribute of an individual during an artificial sensory experience comprises:

means for monitoring a neurophysiological activity.

41. The system of claim 36, wherein means for monitoring at least one health attribute of an individual during an artificial sensory experience comprises:

means for recording at least one monitored health attribute of the individual.

42. The system of claim 36, wherein means for monitoring at least one health attribute of an individual during an artificial sensory experience comprises:

means for observing at least one indication of an expected behavior pattern proximate in time to a characteristic of the artificial sensory experience.

43. The system of claim 36, wherein means for associating a characteristic of the artificial sensory experience with the at least one health attribute of the individual comprises:

means for associating a characteristic of the artificial sensory experience with at least one physiological response of the individual.

46. The system of claim 36, wherein means for associating a characteristic of the artificial sensory experience with the at least one health attribute of the individual comprises:

means for accepting a report from the individual of an association of a characteristic of the artificial sensory experience and the at least one health attribute.

47. The system of claim 36, wherein means for associating a characteristic of the artificial sensory experience with the at least one health attribute of the individual comprises:

means for utilizing an algorithm configured to correlate an artificial sensory experience characteristic with at least one health attribute.

48. The system of claim 36, wherein means for associating a characteristic of the artificial sensory experience with the at least one health attribute of the individual comprises:

means for comparing current measured behavior with expected behavior data that is correlated with an artificial sensory experience.

49. The system of claim 36, wherein means for modifying at least one of a bioactive agent or the artificial sensory experience at least partly based on associating a characteristic of the artificial sensory experience with the at least one health attribute of the individual comprises:

means for modifying access to at least a portion of the artificial sensory experience.

52. The system of claim 36, wherein means for modifying at least one of a bioactive agent or the artificial sensory experience at least partly based on associating a characteristic of the artificial sensory experience with the at least one health attribute of the individual comprises:

means for modifying a visual object in an artificial sensory experience to alter at least one effect of the bioactive agent.

55. The system of claim 36, wherein means for modifying at least one of a bioactive agent or the artificial sensory experience at least partly based on associating a characteristic of the artificial sensory experience with the at least one health attribute of the individual comprises:

means for altering a sound in an artificial sensory experience.

59. The system of claim 36, wherein means for modifying at least one of a bioactive agent or the artificial sensory experience at least partly based on associating a characteristic of the artificial sensory experience with the at least one health attribute of the individual comprises:

means for modifying an artificial sensory experience to alter the efficacy of the bioactive agent.

60. The system of claim 36, wherein means for modifying at least one of a bioactive agent or the artificial sensory experience at least partly based on associating a characteristic of the artificial sensory experience with the at least one health attribute of the individual comprises:

means for modifying an artificial sensory experience to reduce a side effect of the bioactive agent.

61. The system of claim 36, wherein means for modifying at least one of a bioactive agent or the artificial sensory experience at least partly based on associating a characteristic of the artificial sensory experience with the at least one health attribute of the individual comprises:

means for adding at least one of visual or audio content to the artificial sensory experience.

62. The system of claim 36, wherein means for modifying at least one of a bioactive agent or the artificial sensory experience at least partly based on associating a characteristic of the artificial sensory experience with the at least one health attribute of the individual comprises:

means for deleting at least one of visual or audio content of the artificial sensory experience.

63. The system of claim 36, wherein means for modifying at least one of a bioactive agent or the artificial sensory experience at least partly based on associating a characteristic of the artificial sensory experience with the at least one health attribute of the individual comprises:

means for adding content to the artificial sensory experience and deleting different content of the artificial sensory experience.

64. The system of claim 36, wherein means for modifying at least one of a bioactive agent or the artificial sensory experience at least partly based on associating a characteristic of the artificial sensory experience with the at least one health attribute of the individual comprises:

means for modifying a sensate experience.

65. The system of claim 64, wherein means for modifying a sensate experience comprises:

means for modifying at least one of an olfactory stimulus, a haptic stimulus, a visual stimulus, an auditory stimulus, or a taste stimulus.

66. The system of claim 36, wherein means for modifying at least one of a bioactive agent or the artificial sensory experience at least partly based on associating a characteristic of the artificial sensory experience with the at least one health attribute of the individual comprises:

means for modifying an artificial sensory experience implemented on a mobile device.

67. The system of claim 36, wherein means for modifying at least one of a bioactive agent or the artificial sensory experience at least partly based on associating a characteristic of the artificial sensory experience with the at least one health attribute of the individual comprises:

means for modifying a bioactive agent dosage.

68. The system of claim 36, wherein means for modifying at least one of a bioactive agent or the artificial sensory experience at least partly based on associating a characteristic of the artificial sensory experience with the at least one health attribute of the individual comprises:

means for modifying at least one bioactive agent in a bioactive agent combination.

69. The system of claim 36, wherein means for modifying at least one of a bioactive agent or the artificial sensory experience at least partly based on associating a characteristic of the artificial sensory experience with the at least one health attribute of the individual comprises:

means for modifying a bioactive agent delivery method.

70. The system of claim 36, wherein means for monitoring at least one health attribute of an individual during an artificial sensory experience, means for associating a characteristic of the artificial sensory experience with the at least one health attribute of the individual, and means for modifying at least one of a bioactive agent or the artificial sensory experience at least partly based on associating a characteristic of the artificial sensory experience with the at least one health attribute of the individual comprises:

means for monitoring blood pressure of the individual while the individual experiences a soothing sound, associating the blood pressure with the soothing sound, and dynamically modifying the soothing sound in response to periodic blood pressure monitoring.

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71. A system, comprising:

circuitry for monitoring at least one health attribute of an individual during an artificial sensory experience;

circuitry for associating a characteristic of the artificial sensory experience with the at least one health attribute of the individual; and

circuitry for modifying at least one of a bioactive agent or the artificial sensory experience at least partly based on associating a characteristic of the artificial sensory experience with the at least one health attribute of the individual.

72. A computer program product comprising:

a signal-bearing medium bearing

one or more instructions for monitoring at least one health attribute of an individual during an artificial sensory experience;

one or more instructions for associating a characteristic of the artificial sensory experience with the at least one health attribute of the individual; and

one or more instructions for modifying at least one of a bioactive agent or the artificial sensory experience at least partly based on associating a characteristic of the artificial sensory experience with the at least one health attribute of the individual.

73. The computer program product of claim 72, wherein the signal-bearing medium includes a computer-readable medium.

74. The computer program product of claim 72, wherein the signal-bearing medium includes a recordable medium.

75. The computer program product of claim 72, wherein the signal-bearing medium includes a communications medium.

76. A system comprising:

a computing device; and

instructions that when executed on the computing device cause the computing device to

monitor at least one health attribute of an individual during an artificial sensory experience accept at least one indication of bioactive agent use by an individual;

associate a characteristic of the artificial sensory experience with the at least one health attribute of the individual; and

modify at least one of a bioactive agent or the artificial sensory experience at least partly based on associating a characteristic of the artificial sensory experience with the at least one health attribute of the individual.

77. The system of claim 76, wherein the computing device comprises:

one or more of a personal digital assistant (PDA), a personal entertainment device, a mobile phone, a laptop computer, a tablet personal computer, a networked computer, a computing system comprised of a cluster of processors, a computing system comprised of a cluster of servers, a workstation computer, and/or a desktop computer.

78. The system of claim 76, wherein the computing device is operable to accept the at least one attribute of the at least one individual and present the indication of the at least one prescription medication and the at least one artificial sensory experience from at least one memory.