Patent ID: 11969606
Assignee: WEST AFFUM HOLDINGS DESIGNATED ACTIVITY
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 19:
20. A method for helping monitor a patient, the patient having worn a wearable medical monitor (WMM) system for at least one hour during which the WMM system included a plurality of Electrocardiogram (ECG) electrodes, a support structure worn by the patient so as to maintain the ECG electrodes on a body of the patient, the ECG electrodes thus defining two or more channels and sensing two or more versions of an ECG signal of the patient across the two or more channels, a WMM processor analyzing short segments of the sensed ECG signal, and a memory storing WMM system data about the sensed ECG signal, the stored WMM system data being generated from at least one hour of the sensed ECG signal, the method comprising:
receiving the stored WMM system data;
inputting computed raw heart rate (HR) values for respective ones of the short ECG signal segments;
aggregating groups of the raw HR values into respective first time bins that are arranged in a time sequence;
discarding, from their respective first time bins, computed raw heart rate (HR) values that meet an error condition;
deriving first HR values for respective ones of the first time bins, the first HR value of a certain one of the first time bins being derived from raw HR values aggregated and remaining into the certain first time bin after the discarding;
then storing at least some of the first HR values, the stored first HR values having been thus derived from the stored WMM system data that is generated from at least one hour of the sensed ECG signal.