System, method and computer program product for a cognitive monitor and assistant

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10621636-B2
Application number	US-201615239443-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 17, 2016
Priority date	Aug 17, 2016
Publication date	Apr 14, 2020
Grant date	Apr 14, 2020

Abstract

A cognitive assisting method, system, and computer program product, includes determining an intent of a first user from an identifiable attribute of content associated with an activity of the first user, building a first cognitive profile of the first user based on the intent of the first user and the identifiable attribute of the content, and detecting a similarity between the intent of the first user in the first cognitive profile and a characteristic of a second cognitive profile of a second user stored in a database including a plurality of cognitive profiles.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer-implemented cognitive assisting method, the method comprising:
determining an intent of a first user from an identifiable attribute of content associated with the first user, the content comprising the first user's activities in day-to-day interaction with a computer;
building a first cognitive profile of the first user based on the intent of the first user and the identifiable attribute of the content; and
detecting a similarity between the intent of the first user in the first cognitive profile and a characteristic of a second cognitive profile of a second user stored in a database including a plurality of cognitive profiles,
wherein a type of content associated with the first user is filtered from the intent determination, and
wherein the user self-selects the content with which to build the first cognitive profile.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 ,
wherein, when the first user schedules a meeting on a certain topic and invites a the second user, further detecting that there are experts within the database who are available a time of the meeting and are at a location to attend the meeting, and
wherein a presence of the experts is notified to the first user and the second user.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the user selectively decides an activity for the determining to associate content with the activity.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the detecting detects a match of a type of content between the first cognitive profile and the second cognitive profile.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising continuously determining content associated with a new activity of the user to increase an amount of content for building the first cognitive profile.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising displaying a result indicating which content of the first cognitive profile of the user is similar to the characteristic of the second cognitive profile of the second user.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising calculating a change in the first cognitive profile between a first time and a second time, the second time being after the first time.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 7 , wherein the change is displayed as a report indicating a plurality of new identifiable attributes.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the intent is inferred based on the identifiable attribute of the content via machine learning.

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

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein, when the first user schedules a meeting on a certain topic and invites a the second user, further detecting that there are experts within the database who are available a time of the meeting and are at a location to attend the meeting, and
wherein a presence of the experts is notified to the first user and the second user.

12. A computer program product for cognitive assisting, 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:
determining an intent of a first user from an identifiable attribute of content associated with the first user, the content comprising the first user's activities in day-to-day interaction with a computer;
building a first cognitive profile of the first user based on the intent of the first user and the identifiable attribute of the content; and
detecting a similarity between the intent of the first user in the first cognitive profile and a characteristic of a second cognitive profile of a second user stored in a database including a plurality of cognitive profiles,
wherein a type of content associated with the first user is filtered from the intent determination, and
wherein the user self-selects the content with which to build the first cognitive profile.

13. The computer program product of claim 12 ,
wherein, when the first user schedules a meeting on a certain topic and invites a the second user, further detecting that there are experts within the database who are available a time of the meeting and are at a location to attend the meeting, and
wherein a presence of the experts is notified, to the user and the second user.

14. The computer program product of claim 12 , wherein the user selectively decides an activity for the determining to associate content with the activity.

15. The computer program product of claim 12 , wherein the detecting detects a match of a type of content between the first cognitive profile and the second cognitive profile.

16. The computer program product of claim 12 , further comprising continuously determining content associated with a new activity of the user to increase an amount of content for building the first cognitive profile.

17. The computer program product of claim 12 , further comprising displaying a result indicating which content of the first cognitive profile of the user is similar to the characteristic of the second cognitive profile of the second user.

18. The computer program product of claim 12 , further comprising calculating a change in the first cognitive profile between a first time and a second time, the second time being after the first time.

19. A cognitive assisting system, said system comprising:
a processor; and
a memory, the memory storing instructions to cause the processor to:
determine an intent of a first user from an identifiable attribute of content associated with the first user, the content comprising the first user's activities in day-to-day interaction with a computer;
build a first cognitive profile of the first user based on the intent of the first user and the identifiable attribute of the content; and
detect a similarity between the intent of the first user in the first cognitive profile and a characteristic of a second cognitive profile of a second user stored in a database including a plurality of cognitive profiles,

wherein a type of content associated with the first user is filtered from the intent determination, and
wherein the user self-selects the content with which to build the first cognitive profile.

20. The cognitive assisting system of claim 19 ,
wherein, when the first user schedules a meeting on a certain topic and invites a the second user, further detecting that there are experts within the database who are available a time of the meeting and are at a location to attend the meeting, and
wherein a presence of the experts is notified to the first user and the second user.

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Abebe Ermyas
• Almashor Mahathir Bin Ahmad
• Eberbach Adam Harley Eugene
• Ortiz Jorge Andres Moros
• Muta Hidemasa

Classifications

• G06F16/9535

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• G06Q30/04

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• G06Q10/107

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• G06N20/00

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