Patent ID: 8690751
Filing Date: 2014-04-08
Classification: A47C,A61B,A61M

Abstract:
1. A computer implemented sleep modification method with instructions to be executed on a processor, the instructions comprising: receiving a sleep goal that may be achieved through control of an environment near a person; contributing personal historical sleep information gathered over time into a sleep repository using sleep data from the person indicative of sleep quality along with corresponding historical environmental data and one or more cycles of the sleep architecture for the person; combining historical sleep information gathered over time from one or more other people into the sleep repository using sleep data from one or more other people indicative of sleep quality along with corresponding environmental data and one or more cycles of sleep architecture for the other people; correlating environmental data with the sleep quality and sleep architecture for the person using at least the personal historical sleep information for the person as combined with historical sleep information from the one or more other people in the sleep repository; creating settings that vary at least one environmental condition of the environment over time as it relates to one or more cycles of a sleep architecture for the person as determined by correlating the environmental data with the sleep quality of the person and other people in the sleep repository; and influencing a sleep quality of the person through control of the at least one environmental condition near the person experiencing one or more cycles of the sleep architecture.