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Signaling correspondence between a meeting agenda and a meeting discussion

  • US 8,214,242 B2
  • Filed: 04/24/2008
  • Issued: 07/03/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/24/2008
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method of signaling correspondence between a meeting agenda and a meeting discussion, by a signaling module executing on a device, the method comprising:

  • receiving a meeting agenda specifying one or more topics for a meeting;

    analyzing, for each topic, one or more documents to identify topic keywords for that topic;

    receiving, by an automated speech recognition engine, meeting discussions among participants for the meeting, wherein said receiving the meeting discussions among participants for the meeting comprises receiving voice utterances for the meeting of participants;

    generating, by the automated speech recognition engine, a textual representation of the meeting discussions in a current meeting transcription;

    identifying a current topic for the meeting in dependence upon the meeting agenda;

    tracking a frequency at which the topic keywords for the current topic appear in the current meeting transcription;

    determining a correspondence indicator in dependence upon the tracked frequency at which the topic keywords for the current topic appear in the current meeting transcription, the correspondence indicator specifying the correspondence between the meeting agenda and the meeting discussion; and

    rendering the correspondence indicator to the participants of the meeting.

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