IP Library Granted Patent US 10,687,764
Granted Patent B2
US 10,687,764 · App. 16/408,511 · Granted Jun 23, 2020

Biomarker change indicator for behavioral health

Inventors: Paul R. Bastide (Boxford, MA); Liam S. Harpur (Skerries, IE); Lin Sun (Cary, NC)
Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
A61B5/747A61B5/0022A61B5/486G06F16/436G06F16/437G06F16/637G16B50/00G16H10/65G16H50/30
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Patent No.
US 10,687,764
App. No.
16/408,511
Granted
Jun 23, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

Embodiments describing an approach for detecting user biomarker identifier changes based on audio preferences and generating biometric alerts based on the detected biomarker identifier changes. Receiving a user's current audio preferences. Retrieving the user's historic audio preferences and biometric data associated with the user's historic audio preferences. Analyzing the user's current audio preferences based on the user's historic audio preferences and the biometric data associated with the historic audio preferences. Creating a user biometric profile based on analyzing the user's current audio preferences, the user's historic audio preferences and the biometric data associated with the user's historic audio preferences; and outputting the user biometric profile.

Claims (15)

1. A method for detecting user biomarker identifier changes based on audio preferences and generating biometric alerts based on the detected user biomarker identifier changes, the method comprising:

receiving, by one or more processors, a user's current audio preferences;

retrieving, by the one or more processors, user's historic audio preferences and biometric data associated with the user's historic audio preferences;

analyzing, by the one or more processors, the user's current audio preferences based on the user's historic audio preferences and the biometric data associated with the user's historic audio preferences;

creating, by the one or more processors, a user biometric profile based on analyzing the user's current audio preferences, the user's historic audio preferences and the biometric data associated with the user's historic audio preferences; and

outputting, by the one or more processors, the user biometric profile;

accumulating, by the one or more processors, a score based on historic biomarker identifiers stored in the user biometric profile, current biomarker identifiers over a predetermined time-period, current user biometric data and the biometric data associated with the user's historic audio preferences wherein the accumulated score develops models as indicators of behavioral health, and isolates music from the accumulated score based on region, demographic background and medical background.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein said analyzing the user's current audio preferences further comprises:

parsing, by the one or more processors, the user's current audio preferences into subjective music attributes and objective music attributes.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the subjective music attributes comprise: tonal character, noisy, with or without some tonal character, including rustle noise, coloration, beginning, ending, coloration glide or formant glide, micro-intonation, microtonality, vibrato, tremolo, attack, and final sound.

4. The method of claim 2 , wherein the objective music attributes comprise: periodic sound, noise, spectral envelope, physical rise and decay time, change of spectral envelope, change in frequency, frequency modulation, amplitude modulation, music prefix, and music suffix.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the user's current audio preferences are divided into time segments of a predetermined interval.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

alerting, by the one or more processors, health professionals associated with a user based on the user biometric profile, wherein said alerting is incremental starting with warning alerts if the user approaches a predetermined threshold within a predetermine buffer zone, wherein the warning alerts intensify as the user accumulated the score that reaches closer to the predetermined threshold.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the user's current audio preferences comprise at least one of: genre, music artist, lyrics, volume music is played, frequency of songs played, custom playlists, saved songs, liked songs, disliked songs, songs skipped, or background audio.

Assignments (3)
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Oct 1, 2025
From: MERATIVE US L.P.; MERGE HEALTHCARE INCORPORATED
To: TCG SENIOR FUNDING L.L.C., AS COLLATERAL AGENT
Reel/Frame 072808/0442 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 21, 2022
From: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
To: MERATIVE US L.P.
Reel/Frame 061496/0752 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 10, 2019
From: BASTIDE, PAUL R.; HARPUR, LIAM S.; SUN, LIN
To: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 049135/0035 →