Patent ID: 7282027

Claim:
A method for evaluating sleep disorders in mammals and distributing control information related to the sleep disorders through electronic communication networks, the method comprising: acquiring analog information related to physiological signals through a mobile device from a mammal user, the mammal user being at a geographic location outside of a sleep laboratory staffed by trained technicians, the mobile device coupled to one or more sensing devices, the sensing device(s) being coupled to one or more monitoring regions of the mammal, the sensing device(s) comprising at least an external microphone device for acquiring the analog information related to the physiological signals; converting the analog information into a digital format using a signal processing device; transmitting information related to the physiological signals in the digital format to one or more service computers through an electronic communications network, one or more of the service computers being operably coupled to a health information service facility; determining if the mammal user has related control information at one of the health information service facilities, the related control information being received through the communication network; processing the information related to the physiological signals at one or more of the service computers to provide a report associated with the information related to the physiological signals and the mammal user; and communicating report information in the report associated with the information related to the physiological signals directed to evaluating a sleep disorder upon indication of receipt of at least control account information of the mammal user based upon the determining the related account information.