US 11,695,813 B2Granted

Conversational social network

AssigneePattr Co.

InventorAbraham Lieberman

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Abstract

Systems and methods for setting up live online conversations between people, and selecting participants for such conversations in a manner that optimizes the enjoyment of the participants. Conversations are analyzed and attributes of participants and conversations are extracted from the audio of the conversations. A quality level of the conversations is determined from the audio, and subjective quality assessments may be received from participants. Participants and conversations are divided into classes and clusters, where the classes and clusters represent groups of entities which have certain attributes in common. Based on the attributes, classes, clusters, and quality levels, compatibilities are determined between arbitrary pairs of participants and for arbitrary groups of participants. Conversations are generated, and participants are selected for the conversations based on the determined compatibilities.

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Dependent claims

A system for generating live online real-time conversations, comprising:

a media bridge connecting participants in the live online real-time conversations over a network;
a conversation recorder recording to a computer storage medium audio of multiple live online real-time conversations;
a conversation analyzer (i) analyzing audio of participants of the multiple live online real-time conversations recorded by said conversation recorder, (ii) determining behavioral attributes of each participant's speech in the conversations, wherein a behavioral attribute of a participant's speech is an attribute that is related to the audio but unrelated to the words spoken, and (iii) determining quality levels for the conversations, based on the behavioral attributes;
a social network manager receiving a request from a plurality of the participants to join a live online real-time conversation;
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a conversation manager (i) generating the multiple live online real-time conversations according to the number of requests received by said social network manager, (ii) allocating the requesting participants to the generated live online real-time conversations, based on the attributes of the requesting participants and based on the quality levels, determined by said conversation analyzer, in response to said social network manager receiving the request, and (iii) connecting the requesting participants to their respective allocated live online real-time conversations via said media bridge.

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Facts

Application: 17/137,839Filed 30 Dec 2020
Published: US 2022/0210208 A130 Jun 2022
Granted: 4 Jul 2023
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification11 codes

H04L 65/403
Support for services or applications: arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences
G06Q 10/42
Business processes related to social networking or social networking services: determination of affinities or common interests between users
G06Q 30/02
Commerce: marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
H04L 12/1831
For computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms: tracking arrangements for later retrieval, e.g. recording contents, participants activities or…