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

• US 8,321,562 B2
• Filed: 03/31/2011
• Issued: 11/27/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/23/1994
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Intel-GE Care Innovations, LLC (Intel Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Intel-GE Care Innovations, LLC (Intel Corporation)
• Inventors: Kutzik, David M., Glascock, Anthony P.
• Primary Examiner(s): DENNISON, JERRY B
• Application Number:
  US13/077,684
• Publication Number:
  US 20110237905A1
• Time in Patent Office: 607 Days
• Field of Search: 709/224, 340500-69312
• US Class Current: 709/224
• 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. 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 occurrences of a user activity to provide monitored activity occurrences;

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

(c) performing at least one statistical operation upon said monitored user activity occurrence information, said statistical operation including a central tendency determination, a dispersion determination or a moving average determination, to provide a statistical determination including an expected value of said monitored user activity occurrence information;

(d) activating said control circuit in response to a further monitored occurrence of said user activity to provide a further value of said monitored user activity information;

(e) comparing said expected value of said monitored user activity occurrence information and said further value of said monitored user activity occurrence information; and

(f) adjusting at least one of said control parameters in accordance with said comparing, whereby said at least one of said control parameters is adjusted in accordance with said statistical determination.

3. The method for monitoring a user in a user living area of claim 1, wherein said central tendency determination comprises a mean determination.

4. The method for monitoring a user in a user living area of claim 1, wherein said central tendency determination comprises a median determination.

5. The method for monitoring a user in a user living area of claim 1, wherein said central tendency determination comprises a mode determination.

6. The method for monitoring a user in a user living area of claim 1, wherein said dispersion determination comprises a standard deviation determination.

7. The method for monitoring a user in a user living area of claim 1, wherein said dispersion determination comprises an interquartile range determination.

8. The system of claim 4, wherein said time control parameter comprises an expected wake up time parameter.

2. 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 occurrences of a user activity of said user to provide monitored activity occurrences;

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

(c) performing at least one statistical operation upon said monitored user activity occurrence information, said statistical operation including a central tendency determination, a dispersion determination or a moving average determination, to provide a statistical determination including an expected value of said monitored user activity occurrence information; and

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