PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16006558
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["600", "508000"]

Abstract:
A target respiration rate is determined for a user where, when the user breathes at the target rate, the user's vagal tone is improved, which provides a physiological benefit to the user, e.g., stress reduction without drug intervention. The user is directed to breathe at different rates while heart rate and breathing rate are measured. A value representative of vagal tone is generated from the measured heart and breathing rates for each directed breathing rate. The breathing rate that produced the lowest generated vagal tone value is determined to be the user's target respiration rate.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for determining a first target respiration frequency for a user, the first target respiration frequency intended to improve a vagal tone of the user, the method comprising:\n providing the user with a first indication to breathe at a pre-determined respiration frequency for each of a first plurality of time periods, each of the first plurality of time periods having a pre-determined respiration frequency that is unique among the pre-determined respiration frequencies for the first plurality; determining, from first measurements taken from the user, a first heart rate variability value for each of the first plurality of time periods; determining, from second measurements taken from the user and the first measurements, a first respiratory sinus arrhythmia value for each of the first plurality of time periods; combining in whole or in part, for each of the first plurality of time periods, the first heart rate variability value and the first respiratory sinus arrhythmia value to create a first vagal tone value for each of the first plurality of time periods; comparing the created plurality of first vagal tone values to each other to determine a first optimal vagal tone value; and setting a first target respiration frequency based on a first respiration frequency from the time period corresponding to the first optimal vagal tone value, the first respiration frequency selected from the first pre-determined respiration frequency or a first actual respiration frequency.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.03846
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12708643', '11084456', '10330693', '11818142', '11408682']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4173768920932862
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4876014291560379
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4243993457995614
- Mean Citation Score: 202.002538
- Max Citation Score: 214.65236
- Similarity Product: 157.4628088349247

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 0
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 0

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