Cycle-based sleep coaching
AssigneeWhoop, Inc.
InventorsEmily Rachel Capodilupo, Laura Ware
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Abstract
Physiological parameters such as respiratory rate and/or heart rate variability can be measured over time for a user and correlated to physiological and/or hormonal cycles such as the menstrual cycle. By determining the phase of such a cycle in this manner, an automatic coach for the user can recommend phase-specific adjustments to activities such as sleep and exercise.
Claims20
A computer program product for suggesting adjustments to a sleep regimen based on a menstrual cycle, the computer program product comprising non-transitory computer executable code embodied in a computer readable medium that, when executing on one or more computing devices, performs the steps of:
- acquiring heart rate data for a user from a wearable physiological monitoring device;
- identifying a hormonal cycle and a phase within the hormonal cycle for the user based on at least one of a resting heart rate or a respiratory rate of the user calculated using a heart rate variability of the heart rate data;
- determining a current sleep need for the user based on a prior sleep history for the user calculated from the heart rate data and a current daily strain for the user calculated from the heart rate data;
- generating a recommended time in bed for the user based on the current sleep need;
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- automatically adjusting the recommended time in bed for the user by decreasing the recommended time in bed during an early follicular phase of the menstrual cycle and increasing the recommended time in bed during a late luteal phase of the menstrual cycle.
A system comprising:
- a wearable physiological monitor including one or more sensors, a first processor configured to substantially continuously acquire heart rate data for a user based on a signal from the one or more sensors, and a communications interface for coupling with a remote resource;
- a server coupled in a communicating relationship with the wearable physiological monitor, the server including a second processor configured by computer executable code to receive the heart rate data from the wearable physiological monitor, to identify a menstrual cycle and a phase within the menstrual cycle for the user based on the heart rate data, to determine a recommended time in bed for the user based on a prior sleep history for the user, and to adjust the recommended time in bed for the user according to the phase within the menstrual cycle;
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- a user interface configured to present the recommended time in bed to the user.
A method comprising:
- acquiring heart rate data for a user from a wearable physiological monitoring device;
- identifying a hormonal cycle and a phase within the hormonal cycle for the user;
- identifying a prior sleep history for the user based on the heart rate data;
- determining a current sleep need for the user based on a prior sleep history for the user;
- generating a first recommended time in bed for the user based on the current sleep need;
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- determining a second recommended time in bed for the user by adjusting the first recommended time in bed according to the phase within the hormonal cycle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.