Systems, methods, and devices for custom sleep implementation

Inventors

Gurumoorthy, Ram

Assignees

StimScience Inc

Abstract

Provided are systems, methods, and devices for implementation of custom sleep parameters. Methods include receiving, via a user interface, a plurality of input parameters associated with a sleep profile of a user, the plurality of input parameters representing at least one sleep profile target, generating, using one or more processors of a processing device, a plurality of sleep parameters based, at least in part, on the received plurality of input parameters, the plurality of sleep parameters representing one or more changes to one or more biomarkers of the user, and generating, using one or more processors of the processing device, a plurality of stimulation parameters based, at least in part, on the plurality of sleep parameters, the plurality of stimulation parameters representing stimuli configured to implement the identified changes for each of the identified biomarkers of the user's sleep profile.

Core Innovation

The invention implements custom sleep parameters for a user by receiving sleep-target input parameters via a user interface and generating a plurality of sleep parameters based on the received input parameters. The generated sleep parameters represent changes to one or more biomarkers of the user, and the input parameters represent at least one sleep profile target. The approach includes mapping from qualitative sleep-target inputs to target parameters that identify biomarker changes, optionally using prior measurement data.

The invention then generates a plurality of stimulation parameters based on the plurality of sleep parameters. The stimulation parameters represent stimuli configured to implement the changes to the one or more biomarkers of the user, including electrical stimuli to the user's brain. The system further determines and displays a trade-off in the input parameters, where a first input parameter includes sleep quality and a second input parameter includes sleep latency.

After displaying the change, the system applies stimuli to the user based on the plurality of stimulation parameters and receives measurement data based on the applying of the stimuli. The measurement data is used to support evaluation of the sleep-parameter and stimulation-parameter targets, including generating a result object that represents efficacy of the stimulation parameters. Sleep-profile targets are expressed using sleep latency and sleep quality and sleep metrics such as sleep onset, sleep stage durations, sleep cycle duration, sleep efficiency, and slow-wave enhancement, with biomarkers characterized using signal-feature representations.

Claims Coverage

Independent claims cover method, system, and device implementations that receive one or more sleep-profile input parameters, generate sleep parameters representing biomarker changes, generate stimulation parameters intended to implement the biomarker changes, determine and display a trade-off between sleep quality and sleep latency, and apply stimuli and receive measurement data. Across the independent claims, the inventive features center on two or more changes to biomarkers and the sleep-quality/sleep-latency trade-off relationship.

Across the independent claims, the core inventive coverage centers on receiving sleep-profile input parameters, generating sleep parameters to represent biomarker changes, generating stimulation parameters to implement those biomarker changes, and determining and displaying a sleep-quality/sleep-latency trade-off, followed by applying stimuli and receiving measurement data. The system and device claims additionally define communications interface, processing device, and memory device responsibilities.

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