SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING A CONVERSATION SUMMARY

• US 20090157709A1
• Filed: 02/23/2009
• Published: 06/18/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/15/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: O'Dowd, Padraig, Kruger, Stephen Paul
• Granted Patent: US 8,626,832 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/90335 Query processing

Abstract

A system, method and computer program product for displaying a conversation summary is provided. The method may include providing a graphical user interface (GUI) configured to allow communication between a number of users. The method may also include displaying an invitation to join a conversation at the graphical user interface from at least one of the users and displaying a summary of the conversation in a tag cloud on a computing device. Numerous other variations and embodiments are also included within the scope of the present disclosure.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

providing a graphical user interface (GUI) configured to allow communication between a plurality of users;

displaying an invitation to join a conversation at the graphical user interface from at least one of the plurality of users; and

displaying a summary of the conversation in a tag cloud on a computing device.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein the summary is configured to dynamically update during the conversation.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein the conversation is an instant messaging conversation.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 further comprising storing a record of the words used in the conversation.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 4 further comprising determining a weighting for each of the words based upon at least one of a count and a time stamp.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 5 further comprising displaying at least one of the words based upon the weighting.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein the summary is generated using a text analysis engine.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein the graphical user interface is associated with a virtual world environment.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein the graphical user interface is associated with an IP telephony application.

10. A computer program product residing on a computer readable medium having a plurality of instructions stored thereon which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:

providing a graphical user interface (GUI) configured to allow communication between a plurality of users;

displaying an invitation to join a conversation at the graphical user interface from at least one of the plurality of users; and

displaying a summary of the conversation in a tag cloud on a computing device.

11. The computer program product of claim 10 wherein the summary is configured to dynamically update during the conversation.

12. The computer program product of claim 10 wherein the conversation is an instant messaging conversation.

13. The computer program product of claim 10 further comprising storing a record of the words used in the conversation.

14. The computer program product of claim 13 further comprising determining a weighting for each of the words based upon at least one of a count and a time stamp.

15. The computer program product of claim 14 further comprising displaying at least one of the words based upon the weighting.

16. The computer program product of claim 10 wherein the summary is generated using a text analysis engine.

17. The computer program product of claim 10 wherein the graphical user interface is associated with a virtual world environment.

18. The computer program product of claim 10 wherein the graphical user interface is associated with an IP telephony application.

19. A computing system comprising:

at least one processor;

at least one memory architecture coupled with the at least one processor;

a first software module executed on the at least one processor and the at least one memory architecture, wherein the first software module is configured to provide a graphical user interface (GUI) configured to allow communication between a plurality of users;

a second software module executed on the at least one processor and the at least one memory architecture, wherein the second software module is configured to display an invitation to join a conversation at the graphical user interface from at least one of the plurality of users; and

a third software module executed on the at least one processor and the at least one memory architecture, wherein the third software module is configured to display a summary of the conversation in a tag cloud on a computing device.

20. The computing system of claim 19 wherein the conversation is an instant messaging conversation.