Monitoring and control of sleep cycles
OwnerWilliam R. Suttoninventor
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Abstract
A system is provided including: a monitor for monitoring a user's sleep cycles; a processor which counts the sleep cycles to provide a sleep cycle count and which selects an awakening time according to a decision algorithm including the sleep cycle count as an input; and an alarm for awakening the user at the awakening time. Use of the sleep cycle count as an input to the decision algorithm advantageously enables a user to more fully control and optimize his or her personal sleeping behavior.
Claims27
A method for awakening a user from sleep, the method comprising:
- a) monitoring sleep cycles of said user;
- b) counting said sleep cycles to provide a sleep cycle count;
- c) inputting one or more sleep cycle counts to a decision algorithm;
- d) inputting historical user data to the algorithm;
- e) selecting a time according to a decision algorithm using said historical user data and sleep cycle count as an input to said algorithm;
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- f) awakening said user at said selected time.
A system for awakening a user from sleep, the system comprising:
- a) a monitor for monitoring sleep cycles of said user;
- b) a historical user data base;
- c) a processor for counting said sleep cycles responsive to input from said monitor to provide a sleep cycle count and input from the user historical data base for selecting a time according to a decision algorithm including said sleep cycle count and historical data as an input;
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- c) an alarm for awakening said user at said selected time.
A method for regulating sleep cycles of a human comprising:
- a) collecting the human's historical biological data;
- b) analyzing the human's historical biological data to determine historical sleep cycles;
- c) measuring current sleep cycles;
- d) calculating an optimal awakening time based on historical and current sleep cycles;
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- f) awakening the human to maximize sleep cycles.
A method for regulating sleep cycles of a human comprising:
- collecting the human's historical and current biological data;
- analyzing the human's biological data to determine sleep cycles;
- determining awakening time using an algorithm to collect and measure biological data and optional inputs;
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- awakening the human to maximize sleep cycles.
A system predicting optimum awakening time, comprising:
- an algorithm using recursive analytics;
- a data base of historic user sleep cycles and correlated biologic functions;
- input of event priority data to the algorithm for a post sleep cycle;
- a monitor for current sleep cycles and biologic functions of the user;
- a data collector for measuring said sleep cycles and collecting biologic data responsive to input from said monitor and providing data to the algorithm;
- optimization of the predicted awakening time based on recursive analysis of current and historic sleep cycles and biologic data by the recursive analytics;
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- an alarm for awakening said user at said selected time.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.