Patent ID: 8540516
Filing Date: 2013-09-24
Classification: G09B,G16H

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for directing behavior of a first patient of a plurality of patients towards a behavioral objective, the method comprising: calculating, with a statistical processor, a first statistical profile of the first patient, the first statistical profile being operative, for an input of the first patient, to produce the most likely output from among a modeled patient-population, based on a comparison of the input of the first patient with the modeled patient-population, to allow the system to determine types of behavior modification treatments that are successful in achieving a particular behavioral goal based at least in part on a statistical distribution indicating a likelihood of a predicted outcome; calculating, with a patient behavioral path calculator, a first behavioral path to the behavioral objective for the first patient based on an initial state of the first patient and the first statistical profile of the first patient; determining an upper fault limit and a lower fault limit based on a statistical profile of the modeled patient-population, each of the upper fault limit and the lower fault limit comprising a variability estimate with respect to the first behavioral path; selecting, with a patient monitoring processor, a type of targeted message, wherein the type of targeted message includes a positive reinforcement targeted message or a negative reinforcement targeted message; generating, with the patient monitoring processor, a first targeted message based on the calculated behavioral path and the selected type of targeted message; establishing a first session; sending, with an information communication processor, the first targeted message during the first session to motivate the first patient to achieve the behavioral objective and elicit a first response representative of a result thereof; determining a relationship between the first response and the upper fault limit and the lower fault limit; triggering, based on the determination of the relationship, an intervention when the upper fault limit or the lower fault limit is crossed; modifying, with the statistical processor, the first statistical profile based on the first response, the modified first statistical profile being further operative, for the first response, to produce the most likely output from among a modeled patient-population, updated based on the first response, to allow the system to redetermine the types of behavior modification treatments that are successful in achieving a particular behavioral goal based at least in part on a statistical distribution indicating a likelihood of the predicted outcome; re-calculating prior to the first patient achieving the behavioral objective, with the patient behavioral path calculator, the first behavioral path to the behavioral objective for the first patient based on the modified first statistical profile of the first patient; re-selecting, with the patient monitoring processor, the selected type of targeted message based on the effectiveness of the first targeted message; generating, with the patient monitoring processor, a second targeted message based on the re-calculated first behavioral path and the re-selected type of targeted message; establishing a second session; sending, with the information communication processor, the second targeted message during the second session to motivate the first patient to achieve the behavioral objective and elicit a second response representative of a result thereof, and modifying, with the statistical processor, based on the second response, the modified first statistical profile based on the second response.