Patent ID: 8458015

Claim:
A method of user monitoring, comprising: receiving, by a data processing device, behavior information relating to a user's behavior through wireless communication with one or more devices providing information relating to the user, the behavior information including: scheduled activities retrieved from an electronic calendar feature, and participation information relating to the user's participation or nonparticipation in the scheduled activities; analyzing, at the data processing device, the behavior information to compare the user's participation or nonparticipation in the scheduled activities with expectations relating to the user's participation or nonparticipation in scheduled activities and to analyze deviations from the expectations to determine whether such deviations indicate a need for assistance for the user; refining, by the data processing device, the expectations relating to the user's participation or nonparticipation in scheduled activities by monitoring additional participation information over time, to produce refined expectations; analyzing, by the data processing device, subsequent behavior information to compare the user's subsequent participation or nonparticipation in subsequent scheduled activities with the refined expectations and to analyze deviations from the refined expectations to determine whether such deviations indicate a need for assistance for the user; upon an indication of a need for assistance for the user, initiating, by the data processing device, transmission of a signal to the user; and based on a failure of the user to respond to the signal, initiating, by the data processing device, communications to summon assistance.