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US 12,542,047 B2Granted
Methods and systems for disabling sleep alarm based on automated wake detection
AssigneeApple Inc.
InventorsBharath Narasimha Rao, Kevin Will Chen, Reed E. Olsen, Umamahesh Srinivas, Kevin M. Lynch, John-Peter E. Cafaro
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Abstract
Techniques are disclosed for facilitating disabling an alarm in response to particular types of activity-indicative data. More specifically, activity-indicative data (e.g., measurements obtained by an electronic device) can be detected prior to a preset alarm time. Upon determining, based on the activity-indicative data, that a wakefulness condition is satisfied, the alarm can be disabled such that the alarm stimuli is not to be presented at the preset alarm time.
Claims20
An electronic device comprising:
- one or more data processors;
- and
- a non-transitory computer readable storage medium containing instructions which, when executed on the one or more data processors, cause the one or more data processors to perform actions including:
- accessing alarm data that indicates that an alarm is enabled to present an alarm stimulus at a preset alarm time;
- and
- prior to the preset alarm time:
- collecting activity-indicative data that includes:
- one or more measurements obtained by the electronic device;
- or
- one or more inputs received at an interface of the electronic device;
- accessing a set of wakefulness conditions, wherein each wakefulness condition of the set of wakefulness conditions:
- (i) is configured to be satisfied when the activity-indicative data has one or more characteristics that are specified in the wakefulness condition, and (ii) is associated with a confidence value that corresponds to a predicted likelihood of whether a user associated with the electronic device is awake;
- determining, based on the activity-indicative data, that a first wakefulness condition of the set of wakefulness conditions is satisfied;
- determining, based at least in part on a first confidence value associated with the first wakefulness condition and indicative of an increased likelihood that the user is awake, that a disablement query is to be presented to the user, wherein the disablement query includes an option to disable the alarm;
- and
- disabling, based at least in part on the determination that the first wakefulness condition is satisfied and based at least in part on a user response to the disablement query, the alarm such that the alarm stimulus is not to be presented at the preset alarm time.
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A computer-program product tangibly embodied in a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium, including instructions configured to cause one or more data processors to perform actions including:
- accessing alarm data that indicates that an alarm is enabled to present an alarm stimulus at a preset alarm time;
- and
- prior to the preset alarm time:
- collecting activity-indicative data that includes:
- one or more measurements obtained by an electronic device;
- or
- one or more inputs received at an interface of the electronic device;
- accessing a set of wakefulness conditions, wherein each wakefulness condition of the set of wakefulness conditions:
- (i) is configured to be satisfied when the activity-indicative data has one or more characteristics that are specified in the wakefulness condition;
- and (ii) is associated with a confidence value that corresponds to a predicted likelihood of whether a user associated with the electronic device is awake;
- determining, based on the activity-indicative data, that a first wakefulness condition of the set of wakefulness conditions is satisfied
- determining, based at least in part on a first confidence value associated with the first wakefulness condition and indicative of an increased likelihood that the user is awake, that a disablement query is to be presented to the user, wherein the disablement query includes an option to disable the alarm;
- and
- disabling, based at least in part on the determination that the wakefulness condition is satisfied and based at least in part on a user response to the disablement query, the alarm such that the alarm stimulus is not to be presented at the preset alarm time.
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A computer-implemented method comprising:
- accessing alarm data that indicates that an alarm is enabled to present an alarm stimulus at a preset alarm time;
- and
- prior to the preset alarm time:
- collecting activity-indicative data that includes:
- one or more measurements obtained by an electronic device;
- or
- one or more inputs received at an interface of the electronic device;
- accessing a set of wakefulness conditions, wherein each wakefulness condition of the set of wakefulness conditions:
- (i) is configured to be satisfied when the activity-indicative data has one or more characteristics that are specified in the wakefulness condition;
- and (ii) is associated with a confidence value that corresponds to a predicted likelihood of whether a user associated with the electronic device is awake;
- determining, based on the activity-indicative data, that a first wakefulness condition of the set of wakefulness conditions is satisfied;
- determining, based at least in part on a first confidence value associated with the first wakefulness condition and indicative of an increased likelihood that the user is awake, that a disablement query is to be presented to the user, wherein the disablement query includes an option to disable the alarm;
- and
- disabling, based at least in part on the determination that the wakefulness condition is satisfied and based at least in part on a user response to the disablement query, the alarm such that the alarm stimulus is not to be presented at the preset alarm time.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.