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Methods, apparatus, and products for identifying a conversation

  • US 7,617,094 B2
  • Filed: 04/16/2003
  • Issued: 11/10/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/28/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer controlled method of identifying a conversation, comprising:

  • monitoring a plurality of conversational communications that each occur electronically between a plurality of users;

    extracting a plurality of streams of feature data from the conversational communications during a communicative interval between the conversational communications;

    analyzing said streams of feature data for different combinations of said users in possible conversational configurations during said same communicative interval and assigning a probability to each of the possible conversational configurations;

    determining a most probable conversational configuration from the possible conversational configurations based on the probability; and

    identifying a conversation involving two or more of said users based on the most probable conversational configuration.

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