发明名称 Controlling conference calls
摘要 Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and system for determining participants for a conference call where the participants may be selected based on similar attributes as well as the descriptions of the conference call. Additionally, the conference call may be split into smaller breakout sessions, further separating the participants based on various attributes. Further, the conference call participants may be shuffled thereby creating different breakout sessions with different participants with like attributes. The conference call including the selected participants is initiated.
申请公布号 US9537911(B1) 申请公布日期 2017.01.03
申请号 US201615153785 申请日期 2016.05.13
申请人 International Business Machines Corporation 发明人 Bostick James E.;Cunico Hernan A.;Ganci, Jr. John M.;Rakshit Sarbajit K.
分类号 H04M3/42;H04L29/06;H04L29/08 主分类号 H04M3/42
代理机构 代理人 Rudberg Walter L.
主权项 1. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising computer program instructions stored on the computer readable storage medium, the program instructions comprising: program instructions to determine a set of participants for a conference call, from a set of potential participants, wherein determining the set of participants comprises: program instructions to identify a first set of common attributes between the set of potential participants using data retrieved from each potential participant, wherein the first set of common attributes is based, in part, on: a historical interest in the conference call topic, a hierarchical relationship between the set of potential participants, a job based relationship between the set of potential participants, an age based relationship between the set of potential participants, geographic location based relationship between the set of potential participants, technological connections between the set of potential participants, commonalities shared by the set of potential participants, and a prior analysis of the set of potential participants; program instructions to analyze a topic of the conference call using a natural language processor, wherein a rule is established, specifying a relationship between each potential participant, from the set of potential participants and a received topic of the conference call; program instructions to apply a set of stored patterns to each potential participant, from the set of potential participants, wherein the set of stored patterns are based on historical data associated with behavioral patterns of participants of previous conference calls; and responsive to identifying the first set of common attributes between the set of potential participants and applying the set of stored patterns to each potential participant, program instructions to match the set of potential participants, with the established rule in relation to the received topic of the conference call; program instructions to receive a first indication for a breakout session, wherein the breakout session splits the conference call into separate sub-conference calls, wherein the first indication is based on a predetermined time interval; responsive to receiving the first indication for the breakout session, program instructions to select a subset of participants, from the set of participants, for each of the separate sub-conference calls, wherein selecting the subset of participants for each separate sub-conference call, comprises: program instructions to determine the subset of participants to be included in each sub-conference call, based, in part on, a second set of common attributes, wherein the second set of common attributes are based on the geographic location of each participant from the set of participants, and a plurality of spoken words of each participant, wherein the plurality of spoken words relate to a topic of the separate sub-conference calls; program instructions to receive a second indication for a for a second breakout session wherein the second breakout session splits the conference call into at least two new subsets of the conference calls; responsive to receiving the second indication, program instructions to determine at least two new subsets of participants associated with the at least two new subs subsets of the conference call, wherein each of the at least two new subsets of participants are based in part on a third set of common attributes; program instructions to receive an indication to merge the separate sub-conference calls into a single conference call; and responsive to receiving the indication to merge the separate sub-conference calls into a single conference call, program instructions to combine the separate sub-conference calls into a single conference call.
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