Deceptive indicia profile generation from communications interactions

• US 9,965,598 B2
• Filed: 07/31/2012
• Issued: 05/08/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 11/30/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Elwha LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Elwha LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Tegreene, Clarence T., Levien, Royce A., Lord, Richard T., Lord, Robert W., Malamud, Mark A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Abyaneh, Ali
• Application Number:
  US13/562,689
• Publication Number:
  US 20130139258A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,107 Days
• Field of Search: 726 22, 600300, 704 9, 704270, 382118
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/021 Measuring pressure in heart or blood vessels A61B5/0205 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/024 Detecting, measuring or recording pulse rate or heart rate A61B5/0205, A61B5/021 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/16 Devices for psychotechnics using teaching or educational appliances G09B1/00 - G09B7/00; Testing reaction times ; Devices for evaluating the psychological state
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/163 by tracking eye movement, gaze, or pupil change
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/164 Lie detection
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/00 Security arrangements for protecting computers, components thereof, programs or data against unauthorised activity
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/316 by observing the pattern of computer usage, e.g. typical user behaviour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/32 using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voiceprints
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2133 Verifying human interaction, e.g., Captcha
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42201 biosensors, e.g. heat sensor for presence detection, EEG sensors or any limb activity sensors worn by the user input arrangements for interaction with the human body based on nervous system activity detection G06F3/015
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4394 involving operations for analysing the audio stream, e.g. detecting features or characteristics in audio streams arrangements characterised by components specially adapted for monitoring, identification or recognition of audio in broadcast systems H04H60/58
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44008 involving operations for analysing video streams, e.g. detecting features or characteristics in the video stream arrangements characterised by components specially adapted for monitoring, identification or recognition of video in broadcast systems H04H60/59
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44218 Detecting physical presence or behaviour of the user, e.g. using sensors to detect if the user is leaving the room or changes his face expression during a TV program methods or arrangements for recognising human body or animal bodies or body parts G06V40/10; methods or arrangements for acquiring or recognising human faces, facial parts, facial sketches, facial expressions G06V40/16; methods or arrangements for recognising movements or behaviour G06V40/20; arrangements for identifying users in broadcast systems H04H60/45
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4788 communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/84 Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems H04H60/73

Abstract

Systems, methods, computer-readable storage mediums including computer-readable instructions and/or circuitry for generating deceptive indicia profiles may implement operations including, but not limited to: detecting one or more indicia of deception associated with one or more signals associated with communication content provided by a participant in a first communications interaction; detecting one or more indicia of deception associated with one or more signals associated with communications content provided by the participant in a second communications interaction; generating a deceptive indicia profile for the participant according to indicia of deception detected in the communications content provided by the participant in the first communications interaction and indicia of deception detected in the communications content provided by the participant in the second communications interaction; and providing a notification associated with the deceptive indicia profile for the participant to a second participant in a communications interaction with the participant.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

circuitry for receiving one or more signals associated with communication content provided by a first participant, the communication content associated with a communications interaction with a second participant;

circuitry for detecting one or more indicia of deception associated with the one or more signals associated with the communication content provided by the first participant;

circuitry for normalizing a frequency of the detected one or more indicia of deception over at least one time period of the communications interaction;

circuitry for comparing the normalized frequency of the detected one or more indicia of deception over the at least one time period of the communications interaction with a normalized model relating to the detected one or more indicia of deception, the normalized model including at least a frequency of the detected one or more indicia of deception over at least one time period of at least one prior communication;

circuitry for determining, at least partially based on the comparing the normalized frequency, a degree of departure by the first participant from the normalized model relating to the detected one or more indicia of deception over the at least one time period of the communications interaction; and

circuitry for providing a notification to at least one participant in the communications interaction that the degree of departure by the first participant from the normalized model relating to the detected one or more indicia of deception over the at least one time period of the communications interaction exceeds a threshold departure.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the circuitry for detecting one or more indicia of deception associated with the one or more signals associated with the communication content provided by the first participant comprises:

circuitry for detecting one or more micro expressions of the first participant providing the communication content.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the circuitry for detecting one or more indicia of deception associated with the one or more signals associated with the communication content provided by the first participant comprises:

circuitry for detecting at least one of an eye dilation or an eye movement of the first participant providing the communication content.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the circuitry for detecting one or more indicia of deception associated with the one or more signals associated with the communication content provided by the first participant comprises:

circuitry for detecting a heart rate of the first participant providing the communication content.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the circuitry for detecting one or more indicia of deception associated with the one or more signals associated with the communication content provided by the first participant comprises:

at least one blood pressure monitoring cuff; and

circuitry for detecting a blood pressure of the first participant providing the communication content at least partially via the at least one blood pressure monitoring cuff.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the circuitry for detecting one or more indicia of deception associated with the one or more signals associated with the communication content provided by the first participant comprises:

circuitry for detecting a perspiration level of the first participant providing the communication content.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the circuitry for detecting one or more indicia of deception associated with the one or more signals associated with the communication content provided by the first participant comprises:

circuitry for detecting a breathing rate of the first participant providing the communication content.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the circuitry for detecting one or more indicia of deception associated with the one or more signals associated with the communication content provided by the first participant comprises:

circuitry for detecting voice stress of the first participant providing the communication content.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the circuitry for detecting one or more indicia of deception associated with the one or more signals associated with the communication content provided by the first participant comprises:

circuitry for detecting, via at least one speech recognition engine, one or more words associated with characteristic language within the communication content.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the circuitry for detecting, via at least one speech recognition engine, one or more words associated with characteristic language within the communication content comprises:

circuitry for using the at least one speech recognition engine to associate at least one of (a) usage of a multi-syllable version of synonymous words, (b) avoidance of contractions, or (c) impersonal pronoun usage within the communication content with characteristic language.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the circuitry for normalizing a frequency of the detected one or more indicia of deception over at least one time period of the communications interaction comprises:

circuitry for determining an average number of times the one or more indicia of deception are detected over the at least one time period of the communications interaction.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein the circuitry for comparing the normalized frequency of the detected one or more indicia of deception over the at least one time period of the communications interaction with a normalized model relating to the detected one or more indicia of deception, the normalized model including at least a frequency of the detected one or more indicia of deception over at least one time period of at least one prior communication comprises:

circuitry for comparing (a) an average number of times over the at least one time period of the communications interaction that the one or more indicia of deception are detected with (b) an average number of times over at least one time period of at least one prior communication that the one or more indicia of deception were detected.

13. The system of claim 1, wherein the circuitry for providing a notification to at least one participant in the communications interaction that the degree of departure by the first participant from the normalized model relating to the detected one or more indicia of deception over the at least one time period of the communications interaction exceeds a threshold departure comprises:

circuitry for replaying at least a portion of the communication content provided by the first participant including the detected one or more indicia of deception and replaying at least some video footage stored by the deceptive indicia profile including at least one or more stored examples of the particular indicia of deception detected in a communication content provided by the first participant in at least one prior communications interaction.

14. The system of claim 1, wherein the circuitry for providing a notification to at least one participant in the communications interaction that the degree of departure by the first participant from the normalized model relating to the detected one or more indicia of deception over the at least one time period of the communications interaction exceeds a threshold departure comprises:

circuitry for providing a notification to at least one participant in the communications interaction, the notification associated with a type of indicia of deception detected in the communication content provided by the first participant in the communications interaction, at least partially based on determining that the degree of departure by the first participant from the normalized model relating to the detected one or more indicia of deception over the at least one time period of the communications interaction exceeds a threshold departure for the type of indicia of deception detected in the communication content.

15. The system of claim 1, wherein the circuitry for providing a notification to at least one participant in the communications interaction that the degree of departure by the first participant from the normalized model relating to the detected one or more indicia of deception over the at least one time period of the communications interaction exceeds a threshold departure comprises:

circuitry for providing a notification, including at least one of displaying a visual indicator or emitting an audible notification, to at least one participant in the communications interaction that the degree of departure by the first participant from the normalized model relating to the detected one or more indicia of deception exceeds a threshold departure.

16. The system of claim 1, wherein the circuitry for providing a notification to at least one participant in the communications interaction that the degree of departure by the first participant from the normalized model relating to the detected one or more indicia of deception over the at least one time period of the communications interaction exceeds a threshold departure comprises:

circuitry for providing a notification to at least one participant in the communications interaction that the degree of departure by the first participant from the normalized model relating to the detected one or more indicia of deception exceeds a threshold departure at least one of during the communications interaction or following the communications interaction.

17. The system of claim 1, wherein circuitry for determining, at least partially based on the comparing the normalized frequency, a degree of departure by the first participant from the normalized model relating to the detected one or more indicia of deception over the at least one time period of the communications interaction comprises:

circuitry for determining that the first participant uses formal language twice as often during the at least one time period of the communications interaction relative to a frequency of use of formal language by the first participant during the at least one time period of the at least one prior communication, the use of formal language operating as an indicator of deception by the first participant.

18. The system of claim 1, wherein the circuitry for providing a notification to at least one participant in the communications interaction that the degree of departure by the first participant from the normalized model relating to the detected one or more indicia of deception over the at least one time period of the communications interaction exceeds a threshold departure comprises:

circuitry for providing a notification to the first participant in the communications interaction that the degree of departure by the first participant from the normalized model relating to the detected one or more indicia of deception over the at least one time period of the communications interaction exceeds a threshold departure.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the circuitry for providing a notification to the first participant in the communications interaction that the degree of departure by the first participant from the normalized model relating to the detected one or more indicia of deception over the at least one time period of the communications interaction exceeds a threshold departure comprises:

circuitry for providing a notification to the first participant and not to the second participant that the degree of departure by the first participant from the normalized model relating to the detected one or more indicia of deception over the at least one time period of the communications interaction exceeds a threshold departure.

20. The system of claim 1, wherein the circuitry for providing a notification to at least one participant in the communications interaction that the degree of departure by the first participant from the normalized model relating to the detected one or more indicia of deception over the at least one time period of the communications interaction exceeds a threshold departure comprises:

circuitry for replacing one or more frames of a video communication content included as a portion of the communication content associated with the communications interaction with the second participant, the one or more frames of the video communication content having been determined to include at least one micro expression of the first participant, with one or more frames which do not depict the at least one micro expression, the replacing of the one or more frames providing an appearance of a possible transmission buffering error.

21. The system of claim 20, wherein the circuitry for replacing one or more frames of a video communication content included as a portion of the communication content associated with the communications interaction with the second participant, the one or more frames of the video communication content having been determined to include at least one micro expression of the first participant, with one or more frames which do not depict the at least one micro expression, the replacing of the one or more frames providing an appearance of a possible transmission buffering error comprises:

circuitry for selecting one or more frames directly proceeding the one or more frames of the video communication content having been determined to include at least one micro expression of the first participant for replacement of the one or more frames of the video communication content having been determined to include at least one micro expression of the first participant to provide the appearance of the possible transmission buffering error rather than masking of the at least one micro expression.

22. The system of claim 1, wherein the circuitry for providing a notification to at least one participant in the communications interaction that the degree of departure by the first participant from the normalized model relating to the detected one or more indicia of deception over the at least one time period of the communications interaction exceeds a threshold departure comprises:

circuitry for reducing a frame rate of a video communication content included as a portion of the communication content associated with the communications interaction with the second participant based at least partially on having detected at least one micro expression of the first participant providing the communication content to mask the at least one micro expression through increasing a frame duration resulting from the reduced frame rate to be greater than the duration of the at least one micro expression.

23. A method, comprising:

receiving one or more signals associated with communication content provided by a first participant, the communication content associated with a communications interaction with a second participant;

detecting one or more indicia of deception associated with the one or more signals associated with the communication content provided by the first participant;

normalizing a frequency of the detected one or more indicia of deception over at least one time period of the communications interaction;

comparing the normalized frequency of the detected one or more indicia of deception over the at least one time period of the communications interaction with a normalized model relating to the detected one or more indicia of deception, the normalized model including at least a frequency of the detected one or more indicia of deception over at least one time period of at least one prior communication;

determining, at least partially based on the comparing the normalized frequency, a degree of departure by the first participant from the normalized model relating to the detected one or more indicia of deception over the at least one time period of the communications interaction; and

providing a notification to at least one participant in the communications interaction that the degree of departure by the first participant from the normalized model relating to the detected one or more indicia of deception over the at least one time period of the communications interaction exceeds a threshold departure,

wherein at least one of the receiving, detecting, normalizing, comparing, determining, or providing is at least partially implemented using at least one processing device.

24. A system, comprising:

a computing device; and

at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium including at least one or more instructions which, when executed on the computing device, cause the computing device to perform one or more operations including at least;

receiving one or more signals associated with communication content provided by a first participant, the communication content associated with a communications interaction with a second participant;

detecting one or more indicia of deception associated with the one or more signals associated with the communication content provided by the first participant;

normalizing a frequency of the detected one or more indicia of deception over at least one time period of the communications interaction;

comparing the normalized frequency of the detected one or more indicia of deception over the at least one time period of the communications interaction with a normalized model relating to the detected one or more indicia of deception, the normalized model including at least a frequency of the detected one or more indicia of deception over at least one time period of at least one prior communication;

determining, at least partially based on the comparing the normalized frequency, a degree of departure by the first participant from the normalized model relating to the detected one or more indicia of deception over the at least one time period of the communications interaction; and

providing a notification to at least one participant in the communications interaction that the degree of departure by the first participant from the normalized model relating to the detected one or more indicia of deception over the at least one time period of the communications interaction exceeds a threshold departure.