Patient monitoring systems and messages that send alerts to patients only when the patient is awake

• US 9,320,434 B2
• Filed: 07/31/2013
• Issued: 04/26/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/04/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fitbit, Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hello, Inc.
• Inventors: Proud, James
• Primary Examiner(s): Benlagsir, Amine
• Application Number:
  US13/955,810
• Publication Number:
  US 20140247153A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,000 Days
• Field of Search: 340/870.01, 340/870.02, 600/300, 600/301
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2560/0214 of power generation or supply
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2562/08 Sensors provided with means for identification, e.g. barcodes or memory chips
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0015 characterised by features of the telemetry system
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/002 Monitoring the patient using a local or closed circuit, e.g. in a room or building A61B5/0017 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0022 Monitoring a patient using a global network, e.g. telephone networks, internet
• 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 5/02055 Simultaneously evaluating both cardiovascular condition and temperature
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1118 Determining activity level
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4809 Sleep detection, i.e. determining whether a subject is asleep or not
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/681 Wristwatch-type devices
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6831 Straps, bands or harnesses
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7275 Determining trends in physiological measurement data; Predicting development of a medical condition based on physiological measurements, e.g. determining a risk factor
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/746 Alarms related to a physiological condition, e.g. details of setting alarm thresholds or avoiding false alarms alarms per se G08B
• CPC Class Codes: G01D 4/004 Remote reading of utility meters to a fixed location
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/00 Finance; Insurance; Tax strategies; Processing of corporate or income taxes
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 23/00 Alarms responsive to unspecified undesired or abnormal conditions
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/30 for calculating health indices; for individual health risk assessment
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 2310/23 The load being a medical device, a medical implant, or a life supporting device
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/10 using inductive coupling
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/20 : using microwaves or radio frequency waves
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/40 : using two or more transmitting or receiving devices H02J50/50 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/70 : involving the reduction of electric, magnetic or electromagnetic leakage fields
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/80 : involving the exchange of data, concerning supply or distribution of electric power, between transmitting devices and receiving devices
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00034 : Charger exchanging data with an electronic device, i.e. telephone, whose internal battery is under charge
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 : specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 : User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/53 : using third party service providers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 : Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 : Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/08 : User group management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/21 : for social networking applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 : Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 90/20 : Smart grids as enabling technology in buildings sector smart grids supporting the management or operation of end-user stationary applications in general, or like technologies with no associated climate change mitigation effect Y04S20/00
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 20/30 : Smart metering, e.g. specially adapted for remote reading

Abstract

A system for is provided for using telemetry data based on patient habit information or patient monitoring. One or more patient monitoring devices has a unique patient ID. The one or more monitoring devices acquire patient information selected from of at least one of, a patient'"'"'s activities, behaviors and habit information, and patient monitoring. ID circuitry is at the patient monitoring device. The ID circuitry includes ID storage, a communication system that reads and transmits the unique ID from an ID storage, a power source and a pathway system to route signals through the circuitry. An alarm is at the patient monitoring device that provides an alert only when the patient is in a wake-state. A telemetry system is in communication with the patient monitoring device. The telemetry system includes a database of patient ID'"'"'s.

Claims

1. A system for using telemetry data relative to individual sleep information and sleep behavior information, comprising:

a monitoring device that includes a microphone, an RF transmitter and sensors to determine air quality, sound level/quality, light quality and ambient temperature near the individual;

an accelerometer configured to detect an individual'"'"'s movement information, the accelerometer and the monitoring device configured to assist to determine the individual sleep information and the sleep behavior information by the recording of one or more sensors is disabled in response to the accelerometer detection of the individual'"'"'s movement information;

the microphone configured to record individual movement sounds detected by the accelerometer, the accelerometer configured to cause the microphone to stop recording the individual movement sounds when the individual movement sounds are not directed to a sleep related parameter;

ID circuitry at the monitoring device;

an alarm at the monitoring device that in operation only provides an alert in response to an individual'"'"'s detected sleep parameter in response to a detection of motion; and

a telemetry system in communication with the monitoring device, the telemetry system including a database of ID'"'"'s.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein an awake status of the individual is determined by the monitoring device, the accelerometer and the telemetry system.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the alarm is selected from a group consisting of, visual, motion, audio, and vibratory.

4. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

a visual display at the monitoring device.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the visual display is a touch screen display.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the monitoring device includes a processor.

7. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

a control system at the monitoring device to orchestrate communication between different systems.

8. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

a noise reduction element at the monitoring device to reduce signal noise.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein conditioning electronics clean a signal for processing by a central processing unit (CPU) of the telemetry system.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the CPU evaluates historical data.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the telemetry system in operation creates different classifications for data received from the monitoring device.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein the telemetry system in operation provides firmware updates to the monitoring device.

13. The system of claim 1, wherein streams of information are sent from at least one sensor at the monitoring device to the telemetry system.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the streams of information include encrypted and non-encrypted information.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the streams of information is sent from the patient monitoring device to a mobile device or computer.