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US 12,387,848 · App. 18/493,544 · Granted Aug 12, 2025

Computer system for crisis state detection and intervention

Inventor: Kristen M. Heimerl (Minnetonka, MN)
Assignee: Kristen M. Heimerl
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Patent No.
US 12,387,848
App. No.
18/493,544
Granted
Aug 12, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

The disclosed technology provides a system and a computer implemented method for crisis state detection and intervention of a person or group of persons, the method comprising: providing a computer system designed to detect and intervene non-normal, elevated crisis operating states; using one or more biometric sensors that ascertains a crisis state via physical, behavioral, or mental indicators; deducing, with computational hardware, the operational state of a user or users from one or more biometric sensors; and administering an immediate, dual intervention of a sensory form to de-escalate the crisis operating state of a person or group of persons.

Claims (56)

1. A system for crisis state detection and intervention of a user, the system comprising:

a plurality of sensors configured to continuously detect biometric conditions of a user;

a user device configured to provide interventions to the user in response to a computer-automated determination that the user is experiencing a crisis state;

a computing system in network communication with the plurality of sensors and the user device, wherein the computing system is configured to (i) automatically determine that the user is experiencing the crisis state and (ii) continuously provide intervention instructions to one or more output devices to lower the user from the crisis state to a normal state, wherein the computing system is configured to perform operations that comprise:

continuously receiving, from the plurality of sensors, the detected biometric conditions of the user;

determining, based on processing the detected biometric conditions of the user using machine learning techniques, whether the user is experiencing the crisis state;

identifying, based on a determination that the user is experiencing the crisis state, a combination of interventions that include at least an unconscious interventions and a conscious interventions, wherein (i) the unconscious intervention, when executed, causes imperceptible interaction by the one or more output devices with the user to lower the user from the crisis state to the normal state, (ii) the unconscious intervention including outputting, by one or more sensor devices, sensory feedback, and (iii) the conscious intervention causes the user to actively interact with one or more mobile applications that are presented in a graphical user interface (GUI) display of the user device to lower the user from the crisis state to the normal state;

generating intervention instructions based on the identified combination of interventions;

transmitting the intervention instructions to the one or more output devices for automatic execution;

determining, based on processing the continuously received biometric conditions of the user while the intervention instructions are automatically executed by the one or more output devices, whether the user is lowering from the crisis state to the normal state, wherein the determination is made based on the biometric conditions of the user lowering to a predetermined normal threshold; and

iteratively performing the identifying, generating, and transmitting until a determination that the user lowered from the crisis state to the normal state.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the iteratively performing comprises:

modifying one or more of the unconscious intervention and the conscious intervention in the combination of interventions;

generating updated intervention instructions based on modifying the combination of interventions; and

transmitting the updated intervention instructions to the one or more output acting devices for automatic execution.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the determination of whether the user is lowering from the crisis state to the normal state is further based on at least one of:

(i) the biometric conditions of the user lowering to the predetermined normal threshold in response to execution of the unconscious intervention,

(ii) the biometric conditions of the user lowering to the predetermined normal threshold in response to execution of the conscious intervention,

(iii) the biometric conditions of the user lowering to the predetermined normal threshold in response to execution of the combination of interventions,

(iv) receiving user input from the user device indicating user feedback that the combination of interventions is helping the user lower from the crisis state to the normal state, and

(v) receiving user input from the user device indicating user interaction with the one or more mobile applications presented at the user device.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise:

determining, based on applying machine learning techniques and predictive analytics to (i) historic data associated with the user and (ii) user responses to previously-determined interventions for the user, the crisis state for the user, wherein the determined crisis state is unique to the user.

5. The system of claim 4 , wherein the operations further comprise:

iteratively adjusting at least one of the crisis state and the normal state for the user based on processing the continuously received biometric conditions of the user and user responses to the combination of interventions as the combination of interventions are executed in real-time.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the combination of interventions is identified, using predictive analytics, based on evaluating a plurality of unconscious and conscious interventions and selecting the unconscious intervention and the conscious intervention that historically lowered the user from the crisis state to the normal state.

7. The system of claim 6 , wherein the combination of interventions is further identified based on evaluating and selecting unconscious interventions and conscious interventions that historically lowered at least one other user from a crisis state of the at least one other user to a normal state of the at least one other user, wherein the at least one other user and the user have similar user characteristics.

8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more output devices comprise the user device, and wherein executing the intervention instructions causes the user device to present a mobile application in the GUI display of the user device that instructs the user to create music using at least sounds from a surrounding environment of the user, wherein presenting the mobile application causes the user device to:

(i) determine a location of the user in the surrounding environment,

(ii) automatically activate an audio recorder of the user device to extract sounds from the location of the user in the surrounding environment,

(iii) generate music using the extracted sounds from the location of the user in the surrounding environment, and

(iv) output, in a loop and until the determination that the user lowered from the crisis state to the normal state, the music.

9. The system of claim 8 , wherein the mobile application is presented with an artificial intelligence (AI) coach that is configured to guide the user through actions to engage with the surrounding environment of the user.

10. The system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more output devices comprise the user device, and wherein executing the intervention instructions causes the user device to present a mobile application in the GUI display of the user device that instructs the user to call a contact associated with the user, wherein the mobile application is presented with an AI coach that is configured to guide the user through actions to call the contact associated with the user in the mobile application.

11. The system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more output devices comprise the user device, and wherein executing the intervention instructions causes the user device to present a mobile application in the GUI display of the user device that instructs the user to generate art based on user preferences and historic data indicating responses of the user to previous art therapy interventions that lowered the user from the crisis state to the normal state, wherein the mobile application is presented with an AI coach that is configured to guide the user through generating the art in the mobile application.

12. The system of claim 1 , wherein generating the intervention instructions comprises generating an AI coach for presentation in the GUI of the user device with the presented one or more applications, wherein the AI coach is trained, by the computing system, to guide the user through the conscious intervention presented at the user device.

13. The system of claim 12 , wherein the AI coach is an AI therapist that is trained, by the computing system, to provide the user with advice for lowering the user from the crisis state to the normal state, wherein the advice is determined, by the computing system, and based on processing at least one of:

(i) the biometric conditions of the user lowering to the predetermined normal threshold in response to the execution of the unconscious intervention,

(ii) the biometric conditions of the user lowering to the predetermined normal threshold in response to the execution of the conscious intervention,

(ii) the biometric conditions of the user lowering to the predetermined normal threshold in response to the execution of the combination of interventions,

(iv) receiving the user input from the user device indicating the user feedback that the combination of interventions is helping the user lower from the crisis state to the normal state,

(v) receiving the user input from the user device indicating the user interaction with the one or more mobile applications presented at the user device, and

(vi) historic data indicating user responses to unconscious interventions and conscious interventions that have been previously executed to lower the user from the crisis state to the normal state.

14. The system of claim 1 , wherein executing, by the one or more output devices, the unconscious intervention of the combination of interventions comprises outputting, by the one or more sensor devices, at least one of:

(i) a pulse that mimics a target heartrate of the user that is below a threshold heartrate value corresponding to the normal state,

(ii) a pulse that mimics a target breathing rate of the user that is below a threshold breathing rate value corresponding to the normal state,

(iii) a sound that historically has lowered the user from the crisis state to the normal state, and

(iv) audio from a surrounding environment of the user.

15. The system of claim 1 , wherein executing the intervention instructions comprises simultaneously performing the unconscious intervention and the conscious intervention until the determination that the user lowered from the crisis state to the normal state, wherein the unconscious intervention is performed by a first subset of the one or more output devices and the conscious intervention is performed by a second subset of the one or more output devices.

16. The system of claim 15 , wherein the first subset of the one or more output devices is different than the second subset of the one or more output devices.

17. The system of claim 1 , wherein generating the intervention instructions comprises sequencing multiple mobile applications for successive presentation in the GUI at the user device.

18. The system of claim 1 , wherein generating the intervention instructions comprises sequencing multiple sensory feedback for output by the one or more sensor devices of the one or more output devices.

19. The system of claim 1 , the operations further comprise:

receiving user input from the user device indicating selection of an option to receive an immediate intervention; and

executing instructions to perform the immediate intervention at the user device, wherein executing the instructions to perform the immediate intervention bypasses the combination of interventions that are being executed by the one or more output devices.

20. The system of claim 19 , wherein the user input from the user device indicating the selection of the option to receive intermediate intervention is received before the computing system determines that the user is experiencing the crisis state.

Continuity (4)
Continuation 17141019 · Jan 4, 2021
Provisional Application 63054230 · Jul 20, 2020
Provisional Application 62959858 · Jan 10, 2020
Related Publication 20240055137A1 · Feb 15, 2024
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