IP Library Granted Patent US 10,089,290
Granted Patent B2
US 10,089,290 · App. 15/785,520 · Granted Oct 2, 2018

System, method and computer program product for creating a summarization from recorded audio of meetings

Inventors: Keith William Grueneberg (Yorktown Heights, NY); Jason Crawford (Yorktown Heights, NY); Jonathan Lenchner (Yorktown Heights, NY); Satya V. Nitta (Yorktown Heights, NY); Christian Makaya (Summit, NJ); Sharad C. Sundararajan (Yorktown Heights, NY)
Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
G06F17/241G06F3/16
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Patent No.
US 10,089,290
App. No.
15/785,520
Granted
Oct 2, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

A meeting summarization method, system, and computer program product, include recording meeting audio of a meeting, capturing notes including a time stamp from each of a plurality of users associated with the meeting, synchronizing the recorded meeting audio of the meeting and each of the notes of each of the plurality of users based on a correlation between the time stamp, and analyzing the synchronized meeting audio and notes to determine highlights of the meeting based on a co-occurrence of notes between the plurality of users.

Claims (37)

1. A computer-implemented meeting summarization method, the method comprising:

recording meeting audio of a meeting;

capturing notes including a time stamp from a user associated with the meeting;

synchronizing the recorded meeting audio of the meeting and each of the notes of the user based on a correlation between the time stamp of the recorded meeting audio and the notes of the user; and

analyzing the synchronized meeting audio and notes to determine highlights of the meeting based on a co-occurrence of the time stamp of the notes of the user and the recorded meeting audio,

wherein the analyzing further analyzes a concept of the co-occurring notes to determine the highlights only if the concept of each of the co-occurrence of the recorded meeting audio and the notes have an overlap with each other greater than a predetermined threshold value.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising creating a summary of the highlights of the meeting by aggregating the co-occurring notes for each of the plurality of users.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the highlights are determined according only to a match of the time stamp of the co-occurrence of notes.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising aligning each of the highlights of the meeting with a topic of a meeting agenda.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising identifying a concept associated with each of the highlights from processing the recorded audio to create a summary of the meeting based on concepts.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the co-occurrence is determined based on at least two of the plurality of users taking notes at a same time stamp.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , embodied in a cloud-computing environment.

8. A computer program product for meeting summarization, the computer program product comprising a computer-readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a computer to cause the computer to perform:

recording meeting audio of a meeting;

capturing notes including a time stamp from a user associated with the meeting;

synchronizing the recorded meeting audio of the meeting and each of the notes of the user based on a correlation between the time stamp of the recorded meeting audio and the notes of the user; and

analyzing the synchronized meeting audio and notes to determine highlights of the meeting based on a co-occurrence of the time stamp of the notes of the user and the recorded meeting audio,

wherein the analyzing further analyzes a concept of the co-occurring notes to determine the highlights only if the concept of each of the co-occurrence of the recorded meeting audio and the notes have an overlap with each other greater than a predetermined threshold value.

9. The computer program product of claim 8 , further comprising creating a summary of the highlights of the meeting by aggregating the co-occurring notes for each of the plurality of users.

10. The computer program product of claim 8 , wherein the highlights are determined according only to a match of the time stamp of the co-occurrence of notes.

11. The computer program product of claim 8 , further comprising aligning each of the highlights of the meeting with a topic of a meeting agenda.

12. The computer program product of claim 8 , further comprising identifying a concept associated with each of the highlights from processing the recorded audio to create a summary of the meeting based on concepts.

13. The computer program product of claim 8 , wherein the co-occurrence is determined based on at least two of the plurality of users taking notes at a same time stamp.

14. A meeting summarization system, comprising:

a processor; and

a memory, the memory storing instructions to cause the processor to perform:

recording meeting audio of a meeting;

capturing notes including a time stamp from a user associated with the meeting;

synchronizing the recorded meeting audio of the meeting and each of the notes of the user based on a correlation between the time stamp of the recorded meeting audio and the notes of the user; and

analyzing the synchronized meeting audio and notes to determine highlights of the meeting based on a co-occurrence of the time stamp of the notes of the user and the recorded meeting audio,

wherein the analyzing further analyzes a concept of the co-occurring notes to determine the highlights only if the concept of each of the co-occurrence of the recorded meeting audio and the notes have an overlap with each other greater than a predetermined threshold value.

15. The system of claim 14 , wherein the memory further stores instructions to create a summary of the highlights of the meeting by aggregating the co-occurring notes for each of the plurality of users.

16. The system of claim 14 , wherein the highlights are determined according only to a match of the time stamp of the co-occurrence of notes.

17. The system of claim 16 , embodied in a cloud-computing environment.

18. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the concept includes a subject matter of the recorded meeting audio.

19. The computer program product of claim 8 , wherein the concept includes a subject matter of the recorded meeting audio.

20. The system of claim 14 , wherein the concept includes a subject matter of the recorded meeting audio.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 17, 2017
From: GRUENEBERG, KEITH WILLIAM; CRAWFORD, JASON; LENCHNER, JONATHAN; NITTA, SATYA V.; MAKAYA, CHRISTIAN; SUNDARARAJAN, SHARAD C
To: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 043878/0635 →
Continuity (2)
Continuation 15250780 · Aug 29, 2016
Related Publication 20180060289A1 · Mar 1, 2018