Invention Grant
- Patent Title: System for meeting facilitation
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Application No.: US15598033Application Date: 2017-05-17
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Publication No.: US10679182B2Publication Date: 2020-06-09
- Inventor: Isao Kadowaki , Xueting Lin , Shigetoshi Nogami , Munetaka Ohtani , Terue Watanabe , Fumiyoshi Yamada
- Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agent Reza Sarbakhsh
- Main IPC: G06F16/00
- IPC: G06F16/00 ; G06Q10/10 ; G08B21/18 ; G06F16/35 ; G06F16/34 ; G10L15/18 ; G10L15/26 ; G06F40/35

Abstract:
A method, system and computer program product for facilitating a meeting is implemented in a server computer and provides a graphical user interface to one or more client devices. The server displays a mind map of a center topic on the clients. The server collects statements of participants, and extracts words and phrases therefrom, to identify topics that are currently being discussed. The server determines whether a transition has occurred between the topics, and then calculates a correlation between the topics that are currently being discussed and the center topic. The server determines a location of the topics that are currently being discussed on the mind map, based on the calculated correlation, and displays an updated mind map on the clients. The server generates a warning on the clients when the server determines that the meeting proceedings are being retarded, based on the calculated correlation.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180336519A1 SYSTEM FOR MEETING FACILITATION Public/Granted day:2018-11-22
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