500 results about "Sleep duration" patented technology

A sleep efficiency monitor and methods for pacing and leading a sleeper through an optimal sleep pattern. Embodiments of the present invention include a physiological characteristic monitor for monitoring the sleep stages of a sleeper, a sensory stimulus generator for generating stimulus to affect the sleep stages of a sleeper, and a processor for determining what sleep stage the sleeper is in and what sensory stimulus is needed to cause the sleeper to move to another sleep stage. A personalized sleep profile may also be established for the sleeper and sleep guided in accordance with the profile parameters to optimize a sleep session. By providing sensory stimulus to a sleeper, the sleeper may be guided through the various sleep stages in an optimal pattern so that the sleeper awakens refreshed even if sleep is disrupted during the night or the sleeper's allotted sleep period is different than usual. Embodiments of the invention also involve calibration of the sleep guidance system to a particular sleeper.

The interactive doll simulates the character of a live person or, in other embodiments a fantasy figure or animal, in essence, simulating a living being that possesses respective human or animal qualities: displaying specific needs, tenderness, intelligence and / or understanding. The doll contains a clock or other timekeeping device and thereby knows of the time of day. It automatically enters a sleep mode at a preset sleep time during which the playtoy remains quiet, and wakens at a preset hour of the day, issuing a verbal statement to let the player know it is time to again play. By issuing a sequence of verbal requests from time to time to the player to take action of various kinds on or with the doll, determines the player's compliance or noncompliance with each such request and issues a verbal message appropriate to such compliance or non-compliance. Some of the verbal requests made are of a kind that occur at a particular time of day in the life of the character being synthesized, such as a request for a food or beverage at breakfast time, lunch time or supper time. And, from time to time at its own initiative, the playtoy may issue verbal messages of affection to the player. That doll is accompanied by external objects that simulate a variety of foods, a beverage, medicine and the like, which the doll is to be applied by the player to the doll pursuant to specific verbal requests from the doll and the doll is able to identify those objects for enhanced interactive play with the player.

A non-invasive, removable intraoral electrical Stimulator or Pacemaker system and method is described, for electrically-stimulating and re-establishing the tone in the upper pharyngeal dilator muscle, the genioglossus and base-of-tongue muscles, for the treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) in human adults and young adults. The Stimulator system consists of an intraoral Stimulator device assembly with a rechargeable battery, an external (inductive) Recharger appliance and an external hand-held (inductive) Programmer appliance. The Stimulator device assembly is inserted into the mouth by the OSA patient before sleep time and is removed when awake or during normal activity and placed in the charging cradle of the Recharger appliance for recharging the device battery. The physician uses the hand-held Programmer appliance to determine and set the patient-specific stimulation therapy parameters in the device, at the patient's initial evaluation. The stimulation therapy is delivered either in an open loop configuration without regard to patient's respiration activity, or in a closed loop configuration synchronized to the patient's respiration detected by one or more sensors in the system.

In a cellar system providing various packet services, sleep mode operation of a terminal in an idle state is controlled. The cellular system determines a discontinuous receiving (DRX) period according to a QoS of a packet service provided to the terminal, and runs the sleep mode according to the determined DRX period. The cellular system runs the sleep mode divided into shallow sleep duration and deep sleep duration. With this manner, a paging delay to the terminal and a power consumption of the terminal may be reduced.

A GPS receiver is alternately switched between sleep conditions under which between sleep conditions under which a temperature-compensated crystal oscillator is shut off for a specific sleep time while a real-time clock section is kept operational and normal operating conditions under which both the temperature-compensated crystal oscillator and the real-time clock section are kept operational. The GPS receiver determines the ratio of the number of pulses of a reference clock signal to the number of pulses of a low-frequency clock signal counted during a specific period of time preceding the sleep time. The GPS receiver estimates a count value which should have been reached by a reference clock counter at the end of the sleep time if the temperature-compensated crystal oscillator continuously generated the reference clock signal based on the number of pulses of the low-frequency clock signal counted during the sleep time.

A method for treating snoring, sleep apnoea and other forms of sleep disordered breathing comprises administration to a patient of a therapeutically effective amount of topiramate over an appropriate period of time, such as a period substantially coniciding with the sleep period of a patient. A useful route of administration is per os. Also disclosed is the use of topiramate for the diagnosis of snoring, sleep apnoea and other forms of sleep disordered breathing.

The present invention provides a method of accessing a quiescent mobile vehicle using a wireless communication system. At least one transmit power parameter of a vehicle communication device is determined. At least one sleep duration value is calculated based on the transmit power parameter. The vehicle communication device is placed into a quiescent state based on the sleep duration value. Programs and systems of using the method are also provided.

In a power saving operation management method in a mobile communication system, a base station receives a sleep mode entering request message from a mobile station desiring to enter the sleep mode, determines a sleep period type and a parameter by analyzing a combination of radio channels between the mobile station and the base station, and transmits a sleep mode entering response message including the sleep period type and the parameter.

Systems and methods for providing a sleep recommendation include providing a sleep recommendation using an earphone with a biometric sensor. The system includes a preferred sleep determination module that determines a preferred sleep duration. The system also includes a sleep debt module that creates and updates a sleep debt based on the preferred sleep duration and an actual sleep duration. In addition, the system includes a sleep recommendation module that provides a recommended sleep duration based on the sleep debt.

Methods and apparatuses for operating a wireless mobile station configured to communicate with a wireless access point are described. A sleep state may be maintained in which a radio frequency (RF) radio in the wireless mobile station is in a low power state. The wireless station may use a plurality of sleep states, each with a different sleep timer period based upon recent network activity. In one embodiment, a device may have two sleep states with two sleep timers, and in another embodiment a device may have three sleep timers for three sleep states. The first sleep time may be started for a first sleep state and to determine when to awake the device to determine whether there is any network activity. The device then determines whether a first period of network inactivity has occurred and, if so, it starts a second sleep timer for a second sleep state in response to determining that the first period of network inactivity has occurred. The method can further include determining whether a second period of network inactivity has occurred and, in response to determining that a second period of network inactivity has occurred, the device starts a third sleep timer for a third sleep state

To conserve energy, components in mobile devices normally have to transition less frequently between “active” and “sleep” modes, and to sleep for longer intervals. In accordance with at least one presently preferred embodiment of the present invention, there is broadly contemplated herein an approach to reduce energy consumption by using HTTP proxies to shape incoming WLAN traffic. Proxies contemplated herein use techniques specific to the HTTP payload to compensate for any negative impact that shaping may have. Thus, there is described herein the architecture of a “PowerAware Streaming Proxy” (PASP), built on a PowerAware x-Proxy (PAxP) framework. PASP preferably uses RTSP / RTP semantics to effectively schedule media streams across the WLAN. Herein, PASP is compared with PAWP, which is a PAxP extension for web traffic, and problem areas are identified.

A diaphragm pacing stimulatory method and a system to implement the method are provided to improve respiratory function and the quality of sleep in patients whose sleep is compromised by poor respiration. The diaphragm pacing method includes adaptations that make it particularly compatible with the onset of sleep and sustaining sleep. Embodiments of the method are operated independently of breathing effort the patient may make during sleep. Patients for whom the invention is appropriate include those with a neuromuscular disease, such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). System elements include an external electrical stimulator coupled to one or more implanted electrodes that stimulate diaphragm contraction. The system and method provide for a pacing of the diaphragm, improved breathing, and improved sleep. Features of improved sleep include longer sleep time, an increased amount of REM sleep, and fewer episodes of wakefulness and restlessness.

Adaptive out-of-service search behavior by a wireless user equipment (UE) device. The UE may perform cellular communications according to a radio access technology (RAT). It may be determined that cellular service according to the RAT is not available. A search algorithm may be selected from at least two possible search algorithms. A search for cellular service according to the RAT may be performed according to the search algorithm. The various possible search algorithms may specify different ratios of time spent scanning for cellular service to time spent sleeping. The selected search algorithm may be chosen based on any or all of an estimated remaining battery life of the UE, a user activity level, user input, or various other considerations.

An apparatus and method for predicting cognitive performance of an individual based on factors including preferably sleep history, the time of day, and the individual's activities. The method facilitates the creation of predicted cognitive performance curves that allow an individual to set his / her sleep times to produce higher levels of cognitive performance. The method also facilitates the reconstruction of past cognitive performance levels based on sleep history.

An apparatus and method for predicting cognitive performance of an individual based on factors including preferably sleep history, the time of day, and the individual's activities. The method facilitates the creation of predicted cognitive performance curves that allow an individual to set his / her sleep times to produce higher levels of cognitive performance. The method also facilitates the reconstruction of past cognitive performance levels based on sleep history.

The invention provides a feedback hypnosis therapeutic instrument, which comprises a monitoring and acquiring unit, a judging unit and a hypnosis unit, wherein the monitoring and acquiring unit is used for monitoring and acquiring human body physiological parameters; the judging unit is used for judging whether the monitored and acquired human body physiological parameters are within the normal sleeping parameter range of a person; and the hypnosis unit is used for immediately starting hypnosis for a hypnosis object automatically when the monitored and acquired human body physiological parameters are not in the normal sleeping parameter range of the person. The feedback hypnosis therapeutic instrument provided by the invention can be used for performing hypnosis on the hypnosis object in the sleeping process and can be used for performing hypnosis on the hypnosis object who is going to be awake from the sleeping state, so that the hypnosis object reenters the sleeping state, an expected medically-allowed sleeping time range is realized for the hypnosis object, the hypnosis object rest completely, the hypnosis object is in stable sleeping state during sleeping simultaneously, and the sleeping quality of the hypnosis object is improved effectively.

In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for performing rate limiting in a horizontally distributed and scalable manner. The method includes receiving a request in a rate limiter. In turn, a sleep time can be obtained for the request based at least in part on a time value and an allotted time per request, and the request can be delayed according to the sleep time. The time value can be obtained from a distributed key value store using a key generated from the request. After this sleep time, the request can be forwarded from the rate limiter to the handling server.

A diaphragm pacing stimulatory method and a system to implement the method are provided to improve respiratory function and the quality of sleep in patients whose sleep is compromised by poor respiration. The diaphragm pacing method includes adaptations that make it particularly compatible with the onset of sleep and sustaining sleep. Embodiments of the method are operated independently of breathing effort the patient may make during sleep. Patients for whom the invention is appropriate include those with a neuromuscular disease, such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). System elements include an external electrical stimulator coupled to one or more implanted electrodes that stimulate diaphragm contraction. The system and method provide for a pacing of the diaphragm, improved breathing, and improved sleep. Features of improved sleep include longer sleep time, an increased amount of REM sleep, and fewer episodes of wakefulness and restlessness.

A method of reducing power consumption of a radio badge in a localization system is disclosed, in which the radio badge is carried by a tracked target and is provided with a pedometer for detecting a footstep count of the tracked target. The method includes: estimating a velocity of the radio badge according to the footstep count detected by the pedometer; calculating a sleep time from the velocity of the radio badge; and controlling the radio badge to discontinue emitting radio signals during the sleep time. An indoor localization system that performs the method is also disclosed.

The invention provides an intelligent sleep supervision system and an intelligent healthy sleep supervision and control system based on Internet of Things, and relates to the technical field of software development of a healthy sleep control system, aiming at solving the problems that an existing bed system is not fused into the Internet of Things and the sleep of a user cannot be supervised and controlled. A data acquisition module is used for carrying out time acquisition, weight acquisition and temperature acquisition so as to obtain sleep data of the user, including resting time, sleeping duration, weight change, body temperature change and frequency of getting up in the night to urinate; a wireless transmission module is used for uploading the sleep data to a system server and a medical institution database; a data early warning and management module is used for giving corresponding resting time according to expected sleeping duration set by the user, and comparing user sleeping duration data with an average value of data accumulated in a user individual digital health document for a long period; when the user sleeping duration data is lower than the average value, a prompt is sent; and if the sleeping duration is in a poor state for a long period, a bed system sends out early warning. The user can automatically acquire related data and an analysis report through an APP.

According to an exemplary embodiment of the invention, there is provided a method, comprising: determining that an apparatus has data to be sent to a receiving entity during a sleep period of a power saving cycle, the power saving cycle comprising a wake period during which a receiver is turned on and a sleep period during which the receiver is turned off; and delaying transmission of a data indication to the receiving entity by a delaying amount.

An unconnected power save method reduces the battery consumption of a wireless station in a wireless local area network (WLAN). A wireless station enters a sleep mode between scans for a prospective access point. The sleep duration time is determined using the current position of the station relative to the WLAN network topology.

Provided herein are pharmaceutical compositions and formulations comprising mixed salts of gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB). Also provided herein are methods of making the pharmaceutical compositions and formulations, and methods of their use for the treatment of sleep disorders such as apnea, sleep time disturbances, narcolepsy, cataplexy, sleep paralysis, hypnagogic hallucination, sleep arousal, insomnia, and nocturnal myoclonus.

The invention is suitable for the field of intelligent terminals and provides a sleep method and apparatus for an intelligent terminal. The method comprises the steps of judging whether screen turn-on time of the intelligent terminal reaches screen automatic sleep duration or not; when the screen turn-on time of the intelligent terminal reaches the screen automatic sleep duration, judging whether the intelligent terminal is in a non operation state or not; and when the intelligent terminal is in the non operation state, automatically turning off a screen to enter a sleep mode. The step of judging whether the intelligent terminal is in the non operation state or not specially comprises the sub-steps of judging whether the intelligent terminal is in an unlocking state or not; when the intelligent terminal is in the unlocking state, detecting whether a bezel of the intelligent terminal bears a pressure or not; when the bezel of the intelligent terminal does not bear the pressure, judging that the intelligent terminal is in the non operation state; and when the bezel of the intelligent terminal bears the pressure, judging that the intelligent terminal is in an operation state, and keeping a screen turn-on state. According to embodiments of the invention, the availability of the intelligent terminal is improved.

The invention discloses a method and systems for monitoring daily activities of an animal, and belongs to the technical field of image data processing. The method comprises the following steps of: acquiring a background image of an animal breeding box, and putting the animal in the box; acquiring an animal image, subtracting the animal image from the background image, and marking pixel points higher than a threshold during subtracting; calculating average coordinates of the marked pixel points, and calculating movement displacement and movement distance; marking position coordinates which correspond to the movement distance and are less than or equal to a set threshold as stationary points, and marking sleeping once when the number of the continuous stationary points is more than or equal to the threshold of the number of the stationary points; and acquiring sleep rhythms, sleep time, sleep frequency and motion trail of the experimental animal according to the marked result. The invention also provides two kinds of systems for monitoring the daily activities of the animal. The method and the systems can perform non-interfering monitoring on a plurality of experimental animals for a lone time, and automatically acquire and analyze experimental data such as sleep cycle rhythms, time, frequency and motion trail of the experimental animals.

A method for controlling sleep mode of a base station and a mobile station in wireless communication networks, including: determining N of the N-ary exponential sleep mode to decide a length of sleep duration including a sleep interval; measuring downlink traffic addressed to the mobile station at the beginning of a listening interval right after the sleep interval; and when there exist downlink traffic, confirming whether the measured downlink traffic satisfies a mode transition condition. The method further includes: conducting a sleep interval of the next sleep duration of which the length is determined by multiplying the length of the current sleep duration by N unless the downlink traffic satisfies the mode transition condition; and transmitting the downlink traffic to the mobile station when m times the additional consecutive sleep duration is expired or when the measured amount of the downlink traffic satisfies the mode transition condition.