SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NOTIFICATION OF EVENT OF INTEREST DURING A VIDEO CONFERENCE

• US 20140192141A1
• Filed: 03/10/2014
• Published: 07/10/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/02/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Begeja, Lee, Liu, Zhu, Renger, Bernard S., Shahraray, Behzad, Zavesky, Eric, Gibbon, David Crawford, Kumar, Sumit, Basso, Andrea
• Granted Patent: US 9,071,728 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/14.08
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/147 Communication arrangements, e.g. identifying the communication as a video-communication, intermediate storage of the signals selecting H04Q
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/15 Conference systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/155 involving storage of or access to video conference sessions tracking arrangements for later retrieval of a computer conference content or participants activities H04L12/1831

Abstract

A computer implemented method is disclosed, the method including but not limited to detecting an event of interest in video conference data for a plurality of video conference participants and notifying an end user of the event of interest. A computer readable medium is also disclosed for containing a computer program for performing the method. A computer implemented method is also disclosed for receiving at an end user device, a notification of an event of interest in a video teleconference, the method including but not limited to receiving at an end user device from a notification indicating a detection of the event of interest in video conference data from the video teleconference for a plurality of video conference participants; and sending data from the end user device to the server requesting a transcription of comments from the speaker in video teleconference.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a first computer program segment that detects increased note taking from end user devices among video conference participants at a plurality of end user devices;

a second computer program segment that detect at a video conference processor an event of interest in video conference data based on the increased note taking from end user devices among the video conference participants a plurality of video conference participants; and

a third computer program segment that notifies an end user at an end user device of the event of interest.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein first computer program segment further detects increased discussion among the video conference participants.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the video conference data further comprises audio and video data, the system further comprising:

a fourth computer program segment that notifies the end user at the end user device of an interest value for the event of interest based on a profile for the end user, wherein the end user profile comprises data indicating a topic of interest.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the interest value further comprises a specific interest value for the topic that is specific to the end user, the system further comprising:

a fourth computer program segment that sends to the end user device, electronic notes from the video conference for the event of interest.

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

a fifth computer program segment that identifies a respondent from the video conference participants that responds to the speaker regarding the topic of interest; and

a sixth computer program segment that creates an interest value for the topic of interest, the speaker and the respondent.

6. The system of claim 5, the system further comprising:

a seventh computer program segment that determines a level of interest based on an emotional response to the topic of interest, wherein the emotional response is estimated from a facial expression of the respondent.

7. The system of claim 1, the system further comprising:

an eighth computer program segment that stores notes from the video conference participants for the topic in a non-transitory computer readable storage medium; and

a ninth computer program segment that sends the notes for a first video conference participant to an end user device for a second video conference participant.

8. A system comprising:

a processor in data communication with a non-transitory computer readable medium, the computer readable medium containing computer program instructions that when executed by a computer, performs functions that are useful notifying an end user of an event of interest, the computer program comprising;

instructions to detect increased note taking from end user devices among the video conference participants; and

instructions to detect the event of interest in video conference data for a plurality of video conference participants based on the increased note taking;

and instructions to send data to an end user device to notify an end user of the event of interest.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the instructions to detect further comprise instructions to detect increased discussion among the video conference participants.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein the video conference data further comprises audio and video data, the computer program further comprising instructions to send data to an end user device to notify the end user of an interest value for the event of interest based on a profile for the end user, wherein the end user profile comprises data indicating at least one of a speaker of interest and a topic of interest.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the interest value further comprises a specific interest value for the topic that is specific to the end user, the computer program further comprising instructions to send to the end user device, electronic notes from the video conference for the event of interest.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the computer program further comprises instructions to identify a respondent from the video conference participants that responds to the speaker regarding the topic and instructions to creating an interest value for the topic of interest, the speaker video conference participant and the respondent video conference participant.

13. The system of claim 12, the computer program further comprising instructions to determine a level of interest based on an emotional response to the topic, wherein the emotional response is estimated from at least one of a facial expression of the respondent, a pitch of the respondent'"'"'s voice and a volume of the respondent'"'"'s voice.

14. The system of claim 8, the computer program further comprising:

instructions to store notes from the video conference participants for the topic; and

instructions to send the notes for a first video conference participant to a second video conference participant.

15. A non-transitory computer readable medium for use by a processor in receiving at an end user device, a notification of an event of interest in a video teleconference, the computer readable medium having a computer program stored thereon for execution by the processor, the computer program comprising:

instructions to take notes on a first one of a plurality of end user devices during the video teleconference;

instructions to receive at a second one of the plurality of end user devices from a server, a notification indicating a detection of the event of interest in video conference data from the video teleconference for a plurality of video conference participants, wherein the event of interested is detected by increased note taking by the end user devices during the video teleconference; and

instructions to send data from the end user device to the server requesting a transcription of comments from the speaker in video teleconference.

16. The medium of claim 15, wherein the event of interest is one of a topic of interest, a speaker of interest, increased note taking among the video conference participants, increased interest among the video conference participants and increased discussion among the video conference participants.

17. The medium of claim 15, wherein the video conference data further comprises audio and video data, the computer program further comprising instructions to notify the end user of an interest value for the event of interest, wherein the interest value is based on a profile for the end user, wherein the end user profile comprises data indicating at least one of a speaker of interest and a topic of interest.

18. The medium of claim 17, wherein the interest value further comprises a specific interest value for the topic that is specific to the end user, the computer program further comprising instructions to receive at the end user device, electronic notes for the event of interest from the server.

19. The medium of claim 18, wherein the computer program further comprises instructions to receive at the end user device, an interest value from a server for a triplet comprising the topic, the speaker and the respondent.

20. The medium of claim 18, wherein the interest value is determined based on an emotional response to the topic, wherein the emotional response is estimated from at least one of a facial expression of the respondent, a pitch and a volume of the respondent'"'"'s voice, instructions to store notes from the video conference participants for the topic and instructions to send the notes for a first video conference participant to a second video conference participant.