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

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10089290-B2
Application number	US-201715785520-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 17, 2017
Priority date	Aug 29, 2016
Publication date	Oct 2, 2018
Grant date	Oct 2, 2018

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.

First claim

What is claimed is:

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.

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Grueneberg Keith William
• Crawford Jason
• Lenchner Jonathan
• Nitta Satya V
• Makaya Christian
• Sundararajan Sharad C

Classifications

• G06F40/169 Primary

  Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes · CPC title

• G06F40/279

  Recognition of textual entities · CPC title

• G06F17/241 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F3/16

  Sound input; Sound output (speech processing G10L) · CPC title