Granted Patent B1

US 12,216,895 · App. 18/465,059 · Granted Feb 4, 2025

Inventors: Emily Burd (New York, NY); Akshat Sharma (Cambridge, MA)

Assignee: Google LLC

G06F3/0487G06F3/0482G06F3/0484G06F3/167G10L15/22G10L15/26

Abstract

Claims (56)

1. A method comprising:

providing, to a plurality of participants of a conference call, a graphical user interface (GUI) comprising a first portion that presents a polling question to be answered by the plurality of participants; and

responsive to detecting that a first participant of the plurality of participants has provided a verbal answer to the polling question, modifying the GUI provided to a second participant of the plurality of participants to present, in a second portion, a textual form of the verbal answer provided by the first participant and a GUI element that allows the second participant to provide a non-verbal answer to the polling question via selection of the GUI element associated with the verbal answer provided by the first participant.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

detecting that the second participant has provided at least one of a verbal answer or a non-verbal answer to the polling question; and

modifying the GUI provided to a third participant of the plurality of participants to present, via the second portion of the GUI, the textual form of the verbal answer provided by the second participant and an additional GUI element that allows the third participant to provide an additional non-verbal answer to the polling question via selection of the additional GUI element associated with the at least one of the verbal answer or the non-verbal answer provided by the second participant.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the GUI provided to the second participant of the plurality of participants is modified to present the second portion responsive to determining that the verbal answer provided by the first participant satisfies an answer criterion.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein determining that the verbal answer provided by the first participant satisfies the answer criterion comprises:

determining that the verbal answer provided by the first participant corresponds to a set of particular answers to the polling question, wherein each of the set of particular answers is provided by a respective participant of the plurality of participants; and

calculating a total number of the particular answers provided for the polling question based on the set of particular answers and the verbal answer provided by the first participant,

wherein the answer criterion is determined to be satisfied responsive to the total number of the particular answers exceeding a threshold number of answers.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein detecting that the first participant has provided the verbal answer to the polling question comprises:

generating an audio file comprising one or more verbal phrases provided by the first participant;

converting content of the audio file into one or more text strings; and

identifying the textual form of the verbal answer from the one or more text strings.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

determining, based on the verbal answer provided by the first participant, one or more answer candidates for the polling question, wherein the second portion of the GUI provided to the second participant is to further include a textual form of each of the determined one or more answer candidates and one or more additional GUI elements that allows the second participant to provide a non-verbal answer to the polling question via selection of an additional GUI element associated with a respective answer candidate.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

responsive to detecting that a third participant of the plurality of participants has provided at least one of an additional verbal answer or an additional non-verbal answer to the polling question, updating the modified GUI provided to the second participant to present, in a third portion, a textual form of the at least one of the additional verbal answer or the non-verbal answer provided by the third participant and one or more additional GUI elements that allows the second participant to provide the non-verbal answer to the polling question via selection of a respective additional GUI element associated with the at least one of the additional verbal answer or the additional non-verbal answer provided by the third participant.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first portion of the GUI comprises an additional GUI element that allows each participant of the plurality of participants to provide a verbal answer to the polling question.

9. A system comprising:

a memory; and

a processing device coupled to the memory, the processing device to perform operations comprising:

providing, to a plurality of participants of a conference call, a graphical user interface (GUI) comprising a first portion that presents a polling question to be answered by the plurality of participants; and

responsive to detecting that a first participant of the plurality of participants has provided a verbal answer to the polling question, modifying the GUI provided to a second participant of the plurality of participants to present, in a second portion, a textual form of the verbal answer provided by the first participant and a GUI element that allows the second participant to provide a non-verbal answer to the polling question via selection of the GUI element associated with the verbal answer provided by the first participant.

10. The system of claim 9 , wherein the processing device to perform operations further comprising:

detecting that the second participant has provided at least one of a verbal answer or a non-verbal answer to the polling question; and

modifying the GUI provided to a third participant of the plurality of participants to present, via the second portion of the GUI, the textual form of the verbal answer provided by the second participant and an additional GUI element that allows the third participant to provide an additional non-verbal answer to the polling question via selection of the additional GUI element associated with the at least one of the verbal answer or the non-verbal answer provided by the second participant.

11. The system of claim 9 , wherein the processing device is to modify the GUI provided to the second participant of the plurality of participants to present the second portion responsive to determining that the verbal answer provided by the first participant satisfies an answer criterion.

12. The system of claim 11 , wherein to determine that the verbal answer provided by the first participant satisfies the answer criterion, the processing device is to perform operations comprising:

determining that the verbal answer provided by the first participant corresponds to a set of particular answers to the polling question, wherein each of the set of particular answers is provided by a respective participant of the plurality of participants; and

calculating a total number of the particular answers provided for the polling question based on the set of particular answers and the verbal answer provided by the first participant,

wherein the answer criterion is determined to be satisfied responsive to the total number of the particular answers exceeding a threshold number of answers.

13. The system of claim 9 , wherein to detect that the first participant has provided the verbal answer to the polling question, the processing device is to perform operations comprising:

generating an audio file comprising one or more verbal phrases provided by the first participant;

converting content of the audio file into one or more text strings; and

identifying the textual form of the verbal answer from the one or more text strings.

14. The system of claim 9 , wherein the processing device is to perform operations further comprising:

determining, based on the verbal answer provided by the first participant, one or more answer candidates for the polling question, wherein the second portion of the GUI provided to the second participant is to further include a textual form of each of the determined one or more answer candidates and one or more additional GUI elements that allows the second participant to provide a non-verbal answer to the polling question via selection of an additional GUI element associated with a respective answer candidate.

15. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising instructions for a server that, when executed by a processing device, cause the processing device to perform operations comprising:

providing, to a plurality of participants of a conference call, a graphical user interface (GUI) comprising a first portion that presents a polling question to be answered by the plurality of participants; and

responsive to detecting that a first participant of the plurality of participants has provided a verbal answer to the polling question, modifying the GUI provided to a second participant of the plurality of participants to present, in a second portion, a textual form of the verbal answer provided by the first participant and a GUI element that allows the second participant to provide a non-verbal answer to the polling question via selection of the GUI element associated with the verbal answer provided by the first participant.

16. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 15 , wherein the processing device to perform operations further comprising:

detecting that the second participant has provided at least one of a verbal answer or a non-verbal answer to the polling question; and

modifying the GUI provided to a third participant of the plurality of participants to present, via the second portion of the GUI, the textual form of the verbal answer provided by the second participant and an additional GUI element that allows the third participant to provide an additional non-verbal answer to the polling question via selection of the additional GUI element associated with the at least one of the verbal answer or the non-verbal answer provided by the second participant.

17. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 15 , wherein the processing device is to modify the GUI provided to the second participant of the plurality of participants to present the second portion responsive to determining that the verbal answer provided by the first participant satisfies an answer criterion.

18. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 17 , wherein to determine that the verbal answer provided by the first participant satisfies the answer criterion, the processing device is to perform operations comprising:

determining that the verbal answer provided by the first participant corresponds to a set of particular answers to the polling question, wherein each of the set of particular answers is provided by a respective participant of the plurality of participants; and

calculating a total number of the particular answers provided for the polling question based on the set of particular answers and the verbal answer provided by the first participant,

wherein the answer criterion is determined to be satisfied responsive to the total number of the particular answers exceeding a threshold number of answers.

19. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 15 , wherein to detect that the first participant has provided the verbal answer to the polling question, the processing device is to perform operations comprising:

generating an audio file comprising one or more verbal phrases provided by the first participant;

converting content of the audio file into one or more text strings; and

identifying the textual form of the verbal answer from the one or more text strings.

20. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 15 , wherein the processing device is to perform operations further comprising:

determining, based on the verbal answer provided by the first participant, one or more answer candidates for the polling question, wherein the second portion of the GUI provided to the second participant is to further include a textual form of each of the determined one or more answer candidates and one or more additional GUI elements that allows the second participant to provide a non-verbal answer to the polling question via selection of an additional GUI element associated with a respective answer candidate.

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