Patent ID: 8551010

Claim:
A method comprising: detecting a sleep indication in a subject, the sleep indication providing an indication or inference of whether the subject is asleep or awake; detecting an exercise indication in the subject, the exercise indication providing an indication or inference of whether the subject is active or at rest; and monitoring respiration of the subject using a respiration monitor, including: detecting disordered breathing in the subject; receiving the sleep indication and the exercise indication; and computing a sleep disordered breathing indication (DBsleep) indicative of disordered breathing occurring when the sleep indication indicates or infers that the subject is asleep, an exercise disordered breathing indication (DBexercise) indicative of disordered breathing occurring when the exercise indication indicates or infers that the subject is active, and a resting awake disordered breathing indication (DBrest) indicative of disordered breathing occurring when the sleep indication indicates or infers that the subject is awake and the exercise indication indicates or infers that the subject is at rest, wherein the monitoring respiration includes computing a combined disordered breathing metric, DBtotal, according to DBtotal=A·DBsleep+B·DBexercise+C·DBrest, wherein A, B, and C are independently specifiable scaling values.