Interface for a system and method for evaluating task effectiveness based on sleep pattern

• US 7,118,530 B2
• Filed: 08/13/2002
• Issued: 10/10/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 07/06/2001
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Sleep Performance, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Science Applications International Corporation
• Inventors: Eddy, Douglas, Hursh, Steven Rawlings, Elsmore, Timothy
• Primary Examiner(s): Hindenburg, Max F.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Astorino, Michael C.
• Application Number:
  US10/216,860
• Publication Number:
  US 20030018242A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,519 Days
• Field of Search: 600300-301, 600/481, 600/509, 600/515, 600/521, 600/544, 600/545, 600/595, 128/898, 128/920, 340/576, 340/835, 340/978, 700/83, 607/88, 607/19, 607/24, 607/25, 607/27, 514/288
• US Class Current: 600/300
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/16 Devices for psychotechnics using teaching or educational appliances G09B1/00 - G09B7/00; Testing reaction times ; Devices for evaluating the psychological state
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4809 Sleep detection, i.e. determining whether a subject is asleep or not
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4812 Detecting sleep stages or cycles
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 15/00 ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/30 relating to physical therapies or activities, e.g. physiotherapy, acupressure or exercising
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/50 for simulation or modelling of medical disorders
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/70 for mining of medical data, e.g. analysing previous cases of other patients
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 128/92 Computer assisted medical diagnostics

Abstract

An interface for a system and method for evaluating the effectiveness of a person to perform a task based on his/her preceding or predicted sleep pattern is provided. The interface allows a user to use actual sleep data or predicted sleep data to produce predictions of the task effectiveness of a person to perform a particular task. The predictions may be in tabular, graphical, or tabular and graphical format. The interface may also represent the effectiveness of a user based on the actual or predicted sleep data in conjunction with an actual or predicted work schedule or pattern. The results can be correlated to sunlight in the user'"'"'s location, and can also account for changes in the users location (transmeridian shifts), sunlight during the user'"'"'s sleep cycle (shift work), and other schedule modifying events.

Claims

1. A method of evaluating the effectiveness of a person to perform a task based on a sleep pattern using the interface, said method performed by a computer system having a graphical user interface including a display and a user interface selection device, comprising the steps of:

(i) receiving sleep pattern data for an individual;

(ii) displaying a schedule based on the sleep pattern data;

(iii) calculating and displaying a measure of task performance, wherein the measure is based at least in part on the received sleep pattern data;

(iv) entering a parameter affecting the displayed schedule; and

(v) displaying a second schedule for the individual, wherein the second schedule includes a recalculated measure of task performance responsive to the entered parameter,

wherein step (iv) comprises entering event information corresponding to an aircraft takeoff or landing.

2. A method of evaluating the effectiveness of a person to perform a task based on a sleep pattern using the interface, said method performed by a computer system having a graphical user interface including a display and a user interface selection device, comprising the steps of:

(i) receiving sleep pattern data for an individual;

(ii) displaying a schedule based on the sleep pattern data;

(iii) calculating and displaying a measure of task performance, wherein the measure is based at least in part on the received sleep pattern data;

(iv) entering a parameter affecting the displayed schedule; and

(v) displaying a second schedule for the individual, wherein the second schedule includes a recalculated measure of task performance responsive to the entered parameter,

wherein step (iv) comprises entering event information corresponding to a travel waypoint.

3. A computer readable medium storing computer readable instructions to perform a method of evaluating the effectiveness of a person to perform a task based on a sleep pattern using the interface, comprising the steps of:

(i) receiving sleep pattern data for an individual;

(ii) displaying a schedule based on the sleep pattern data;

(iii) calculating and displaying a measure of task performance, wherein the measure is based at least in part on the received sleep pattern data;

(iv) entering a parameter affecting the displayed schedule; and

(v) displaying a second schedule for the individual, wherein the second schedule includes a recalculated measure of task performance responsive to the entered parameter,

wherein step (iv) comprises entering event information corresponding to aircraft takeoff or landing.

4. A computer readable medium storing computer readable instructions to perform a method of evaluating the effectiveness of a person to perform a task based on a sleep pattern using the interface, comprising the steps of:

(i) receiving sleep pattern data for an individual;

(ii) displaying a schedule based on the sleep pattern data;

(iii) calculating and displaying a measure of task performance, wherein the measure is based at least in part on the received sleep pattern data;

(iv) entering a parameter affecting the displayed schedule; and

(v) displaying a second schedule for the individual, wherein the second schedule includes a recalculated measure of task performance responsive to the entered parameter,

wherein step (iv) comprises entering event information corresponding to a travel waypoint.