Automated social network introductions for e-meetings

• US 10,148,712 B2
• Filed: 03/28/2017
• Issued: 12/04/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 02/04/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AirBNB Incorporated
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Lakshmanan, Geetika T., Oberhofer, Martin
• Primary Examiner(s): Donabed, Ninos
• Application Number:
  US15/472,209
• Publication Number:
  US 20170201554A1
• Time in Patent Office: 616 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/212 using filtering or selective blocking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/403 Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for automated social networking for e-meetings. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for automated social networking for e-meetings is provided. The method includes monitoring content provided to an e-meeting managed by an e-meeting server executing in memory of a host computer. The method further includes detecting a name in the monitored content and comparing the detected name to names in a contact list for a social networking system executing externally to the e-meeting. Finally, the method includes triggering generation of a social networking introduction for the name to different participants to the e-meeting in response to matching the detected name to a name in the contact list.

Claims

1. A method for automated social networking for e-meetings, the method comprising:

executing an e-meeting server in memory of a host computer and hosting an e-meeting in the e-meeting server and receiving content in the e-meeting from different end users in the e-meeting, each of the different end users having a respectively different contact list of contacts for a corresponding social networking account;

monitoring the content by the e-meeting server;

detecting during the monitoring a name in the monitored content;

comparing the detected name to different names in the different lists of contacts; and

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on condition that the detected name matches a name in a contact list for a social networking account of a particular one of the different end users in the e-meeting, triggering generation of a social networking introduction between the particular one of the different end users in the e-meeting and the detected name.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein monitoring the content comprises speech recognizing audio provided to the e-meeting into textual content and monitoring the textual content speech recognized from the audio.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the triggering comprises triggering generation of a social networking introduction between the particular one of the different end users in the e-meeting and the detected name in response to the detected name matching a threshold number of names in respectively different contact lists for corresponding social networking accounts of different ones of the different end users in the e-meeting.

4. An e-meeting data processing system configured for automated follow-up for e-meetings, the system comprising:

an e-meeting server executing in memory of a host computer and managing an e-meeting in the e-meeting server attended by a plurality of e-meeting participants and receiving content in the e-meeting from different end users in the e-meeting, each of the different end users having a respectively different contact list of contacts for a corresponding social networking account; and

an automated social networking module coupled to the e-meeting server, the module comprising program code enabled to monitor the content, to detect during the monitoring a name in the monitored content, to compare the detected name to different names in the different lists of contacts and on condition that the detected name matches a name in a contact list for a social networking account of a particular one of the different end users in the e-meeting, to trigger generation of a social networking introduction between the particular one of the different end users in the e-meeting and the detected name.

5. The system of claim 4, further comprising a speech recognition engine speech recognizing audio provided to the e-meeting into textual content for monitoring by the program code for the module.

6. The system of claim 4, wherein the program code of the module triggers generation of a social networking introduction between the particular one of the different end users in the e-meeting and the detected name in response to the detected name matching a threshold number of names in respectively different contact lists for corresponding social networking accounts of different ones of the different end users in the e-meeting.

7. A computer program product for automated social networking for e-meetings, the computer program product comprising:

a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, the computer readable program code comprising;

computer readable program code for executing an e-meeting server in memory of a host computer and hosting an e-meeting in the e-meeting server and receiving content in the e-meeting from different end users in the e-meeting, each of the different end users having a respectively different contact list of contacts for a corresponding social networking account;

computer readable program code for monitoring the content by the e-meeting server;

computer readable program code for detecting during the monitoring a name in the monitored content;

computer readable program code for comparing the detected name to different names in the different lists of contacts; and

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computer readable program code for, on condition that the detected name matches a name in a contact list for a social networking account of a particular one of the different end users in the e-meeting, triggering generation of a social networking introduction between the particular one of the different end users in the e-meeting and the detected name.

8. The computer program product of claim 7, wherein the computer readable program code for monitoring the content comprises computer readable program code for speech recognizing audio provided to the e-meeting into textual content and monitoring the textual content speech recognized from the audio.

9. The computer program product of claim 7, wherein the computer readable program code for the triggering comprises computer readable program code for triggering generation of a social networking introduction between the particular one of the different end users in the e-meeting and the detected name in response to the detected name matching a threshold number of names in respectively different contact lists for corresponding social networking accounts of different ones of the different end users in the e-meeting.