Data-driven sleep coaching system

• US 20100099954A1
• Filed: 05/06/2009
• Published: 04/22/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/22/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: ResMed Sensor Technologies Limited (ResMed Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: ZEO, Inc.
• Inventors: Shashoua, Eric, Fabregas, Stephen, Shambroom, John, Rubin, Benjamin, Dickinson, David, Donahue, Jason
• Application Number:
  US12/387,730
• Publication Number:
  US 20100099954A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/300
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0006 ECG or EEG signals
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/369 Electroencephalography [EEG] devices for psychotechnics A61B5/16
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4812 Detecting sleep stages or cycles
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4815 Sleep quality
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6814 Head
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/00 Teaching not covered by other main groups of this subclass teaching or practice apparatus for gun-aiming or gun-laying F41G3/26
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems
• CPC Class Codes: G16Z 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other main groups of this subclass

Abstract

System and method for a user to monitor and/or modify his or her sleep. In one embodiment, the sleep coaching system comprises a sensor for sensing a physiological signal of a sleeping user such as an EEG, computer memory databases for storing user and sleep-related data and advice, and a processor that generates a set of advice to improve user sleep satisfaction based on the user and sleep-related data. The advice to improve user sleep satisfaction, which may be communicated to the user, may comprise a sleep coaching plan, which may include one or more sleep coaching workshops that the user may undertake.

Claims

1. A kit for an interactive sleep coaching program, comprising

a sleep sensor of the type that measures a physiological signal and generates and displays sleep data that characterizes a user'"'"'s sleep;

and

a sleep coaching program for collecting information about that respective user'"'"'s sleeping conditions and for selecting as a function of an algorithm that considers the collected information, a targeted set of advice stored within a data base of stored advice, for improving the sleep satisfaction of the respective user, whereby the user may collect advice from the sleep coaching program and employ the sleep sensor to determine interactively whether the advice and sleep coaching program are improving their sleep satisfaction.

2. The kit of claim 1, wherein the sleep coaching program includes

means for collecting user data respective of at least one of demographic data and lifestyle data.

3. The kit of claim 1, wherein the sleep coaching program includes

means of collecting data representative of the user sleep data.

4. The kit of claim 1, wherein the sleep coaching program includes

means for collecting data representative of user goals for improving sleep satisfaction and employs goals when selecting advice.

5. The kit of claim 1, wherein the sleep coaching program

collects data from sensor representative of a baseline measure of user sleep.

6. The kit of claim 1, wherein the sleep coaching program

generates an assessment of changes in sleep quality as a function of a previous measure of sleep data and subsequent measures of user sleep data.

7. The kit of claim 1 wherein the sleep coaching program allows the user to select a program for improving sleep satisfaction and selects the advice as a function of the user selected program.

8. The kit of claim 1, wherein the sleep coaching program generates assessments as a function of milestones within the sleep coaching program.

9. The kit claim of 8, wherein the sleep coaching program generates the assessments as a function of a measured baseline of users sleep.

10. The kit claim of 8, wherein the sleep coaching program generates the assessments as function of a normalized baseline representative of a normative sleep measure of a predetermined population.

11. The kit of claim 1, wherein the sleep coaching program allows the user to enter sleep data for providing feedback to the sleep coaching program to select subsequent advice from the data base.

12. The kit of claim 1, wherein the sleep coaching program collects diary data from the user representative of events in the user'"'"'s life over a selected time period that affect the user'"'"'s sleeping conditions.

13. The kit of claim 1, further comprising

means for communicating with a live sleep coach and exchanging sleep data of the user and receiving expert advice from the live sleep coach.

14. An interactive sleep coaching system, comprising:

a sensor of the type that can be worn by a user to measure a physiological signal to collect user sleep data,

a processing unit for communicating with the sensor and recording the sleep data collected by the sensor over a defined period of time, having a baseline processor for generating a baseline representative of sleep quality of the user,

a user data input device for collecting diary data indicative of events in the user'"'"'s life and the timing of those events,

a processor for correlating, at least as a function of time, the recorded sleep data with the collected diary data to generate a first set of advice for improving the sleep satisfaction based at least in part on the sleep data associated with the defined period of time, and

a progression processor for collecting sleep data over a second later period of time and providing to the user a second set of sleep advice for improving the sleep satisfaction based at least in part on the sleep data associated with the second later period of time and the first set of advice.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the progression processor includes

means for adjusting the baseline as a function of sleep data collected over the second later period of time, to revise the baseline to reflect changes in sleep over time.

16. The system of claim 14, wherein the physiological signal is an electroencephalogram signal.

17. The system of claim 14, wherein the first set of advice for improving user sleep satisfaction comprises

a sleep coaching plan comprising

at least one sleep coaching workshop directed to at least one sleep-related issue generated based at least in part on at least one of the first physiological signal and the indication of user behaviors or user characteristics, wherein the at least one sleep coaching workshop comprises

a questionnaire;

at least one piece of advice to improve user sleep satisfaction; and

a summary of results based at least in part on the first physiological signal received during the workshop.

18. A method for providing an interactive sleep coaching program to a user, comprising

receiving sleep data associated with a first day and being indicative of quality of sleep, wherein the sleep data is determined by sensing and processing a physiological signal of the user while the user is sleeping,

receiving diary data indicative of user lifestyle events, the diary data including data received from the user describing lifestyle events during the first day,

mapping the sleep data associated with the first day to the diary data associated with the first day,

providing to the user a first set of advice for improving user sleep satisfaction based at least in part on the sleep data associated with the first day,

receiving sleep data associated with a second day and being indicative of quality of sleep, wherein the sleep data is determined by sensing and processing a physiological signal of the user while the user is sleeping,

receiving diary data indicative of user lifestyle events, the diary data including data received from the user describing lifestyle events during the second day,

mapping the sleep data associated with the second day to the diary data associated with the second day, and

providing to the user a second set of advice for improving user sleep satisfaction based at least in part on the sleep data associated with the second day and the first set of advice.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the physiological signal is an electroencephalogram signal.

20. The method of claim 18, wherein the first set of advice for improving user sleep satisfaction comprises

a sleep coaching plan comprising

at least one sleep coaching workshop directed to at least one sleep-related issue generated based at least in part on at least one of the first physiological signal and the indication of user behaviors or user characteristics, wherein the at least one sleep coaching workshop comprises

a questionnaire;

at least one piece of advice to improve user sleep satisfaction; and

a summary of results based at least in part on the first physiological signal received during the workshop.