# US 11,907,667 B2 · Apparatus, system, and method of assisting information sharing, and recording medium > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 11,907,667 B2 - Document ID: US11907667B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 17/885,541 - Filed: 2022-08-11 - Published: 2022-12-01 - Granted: 2024-02-20 - Earliest claimed: 2016-05-27 - Assignees: Ricoh Company, Ltd. - Applicants: Ricoh Company, Ltd. - Inventors: Tomohiro Shima - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11907667B2 ## CPC - G06F 40/30: Semantic analysis - G06F 9/44: Arrangements for executing specific programs - G06F 9/451: Execution arrangements for user interfaces - G06F 16/345: {Summarisation for human users} - G06F 16/433: {using audio data} - G06F 40/284: Lexical analysis, e.g. tokenisation or collocates - G06F 40/35: Discourse or dialogue representation - G06N 20/00: Machine learning - G06Q 10/10: Office automation; Time management - G09G 3/025: {with scanning or deflecting the beams in two directions or dimensions} - G09G 2380/14: Electronic books and readers - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) - G06N: COMPUTING ARRANGEMENTS BASED ON SPECIFIC COMPUTATIONAL MODELS - G06Q: INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR - G09G: ARRANGEMENTS OR CIRCUITS FOR CONTROL OF INDICATING DEVICES USING STATIC MEANS TO PRESENT VARIABLE INFORMATION (arrangements for transferring data between digital computers and displays G06F3/14; static indicating arrangements comprising an association of a number of separate sources or light control cells G09F9/00; static indicating arrangements comprising integral associations of a number of light sources H01J, H01K, H10H, H05B33/12; scanning, transmission or reproduction of documents or the like, e.g. facsimile transmission, details thereof H04N1/00) ## Abstract A system for assisting sharing of information includes circuitry to: input a plurality of sentences each representing a statement made by one of a plurality of users, the sentence being generated by speaking or writing during a meeting or by extracting from at least one of meeting data, email data, electronic file data, and chat data at any time; determine a statement type of the statement represented by each one of the plurality of sentences, the statement type being one of a plurality of statement types previously determined; select, from among the plurality of sentences being input, one or more sentences each representing a statement of a specific statement type of the plurality of types; and output a list of the selected one or more sentences as key statements of the plurality of sentences. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A system, comprising: circuitry configured to input a plurality of statements made by one or more participants in a meeting; identify each participant, of the one or more participants, that has made a statement of the plurality of statements; generate, for each participant identified as having made a statement, an evaluation result based on a number of statements of one or more statements made by the participant during the meeting; and output the evaluation result. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1, wherein the circuitry is further configured to output a part of a statement, of the plurality of statements, in a format that is previously determined according to a type of the statement. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1, wherein the circuitry is further configured to identify a particular participant, of the one or more participants, who has made a statement of the plurality of statements, and output for display the statement in association with the identified particular participant. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1, wherein the circuitry is further configured to output for display a statement, which corresponds to a particular statement type, from among the plurality of statements input by the circuitry. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1, wherein the circuitry generates the evaluation result based on the number of statements and a type of a statement of the plurality of statements. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1, wherein the circuitry is further configured to calculate a cost based on personnel expenses of the one or more participants in the meeting, and output the cost. ### Claim 7 (depends on 5) The system of claim 5, wherein the circuitry is further configured to generate the evaluation result based on a difference between a time spent for the meeting and a time scheduled for the meeting. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1, wherein the circuitry is further configured to identify a particular participant, of the one or more participants, who has made a particular statement of the plurality of statements; generate a particular evaluation result for the particular participant based on a number of statements made by the particular participant and a type of the particular statement; and output the particular evaluation result. ### Claim 9 (depends on 5) The system of claim 5, wherein the circuitry generates the evaluation result based on a subjective evaluation having been input by the circuitry. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1, wherein the circuitry is further configured to train a classifier to determine a type of a statement of the plurality of statements, the classifier determines the type of the statement based on at least one of features of the statement, a role of a participant of the one or more participants, or a type of the meeting, and the at least one of features include at least one of adverb, adjective, noun or auxiliary verb of the statement. ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1, wherein the circuitry is further configured to train a classifier to determine a type of a statement of the plurality of statements, the classifier determines the type of the statement based on at least one of features of the statement, a role of a participant of the one or more participants, or a type of the meeting, and the circuitry determines the type of the statement based on an identity of a participant who has made the statement. ### Claim 12 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1, wherein the circuitry is further configured to determine a topic boundary for classifying the plurality of statements into one or more groups, and generate a topic, for each group of the one or more groups, defined by the topic boundary. ### Claim 13 (depends on 12) The system of claim 12, wherein for each group of the one or more groups, a respective topic represents at least one of a subject, theme, feature, or issue of the plurality of statements belonging to the group, or statements to which sentence compression is performed. ### Claim 14 (depends on 12) The system of claim 12, wherein the circuitry is further configured to translate a statement, of the plurality of statements, into a language different than a language of the statement having been input to generate a translated statement, and output the translated statement. ### Claim 15 A method, comprising: inputting a plurality of statements made by one or more participants in a meeting; identifying each participant, of the one or more participants, that has made a statement of the plurality of statements; generating, for each participant identified as having made a statement, an evaluation result based on a number of statements of the one or more statements made by the participant during the meeting; and outputting the evaluation result. ### Claim 16 A non-transitory recording medium storing a plurality of instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause the processors to perform a method comprising: inputting a plurality of statements made by one or more participants in a meeting; identifying each participant, of the one or more participants, that has made a statement of the plurality of statements; generating, for each participant identified as having made a statement, an evaluation result based on a number of statements of one or more statements made by the participant during the meeting; and outputting the evaluation result. ### Claim 17 An apparatus, comprising: circuitry configured to input a plurality of statements made by one or more participants in a meeting; identify each participant, of the one or more participants, that has made a statement of the plurality of statements; generate, for each participant identified as having made a statement, an evaluation result based on a number of statements of one or more statements made by the participant during the meeting; and output the evaluation result. ### Claim 18 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1, wherein the circuitry is further configured to output information indicating contribution to the meeting made by a participant of the one more participants. ### Claim 19 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1, wherein the circuitry is further configured to output information indicating contributions to the meeting made by each participant of the one more participants. ### Claim 20 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1, wherein in a case that the number of statements is greater than a predetermined threshold, the circuitry is further configured to receive a user input in response to the output evaluation result.