System and method for facilitating cognitive processing of simultaneous remote voice conversations

A method for facilitating cognitive processing of simultaneous remote voice conversations, comprising:

• participating in a plurality of remote voice conversations between distributed participants provided over a shared communications channel;
• identifying from within the remote voice conversations each of a main conversation between at least two of the distributed participants and one or more subconversations between at least two other of the distributed participants;
• defining segments of interest to one of the distributed participants comprising a conversation excerpt having a lower attention activation threshold for the one distributed participant;
• parsing each of the subconversations into live conversation excerpts and comparing the live conversation excerpts to the segments of interest;
• continually monitoring the main conversation and predicting one or more gaps between conversation flow in the main conversation;
• and
• selectively injecting the live conversation excerpts into the gaps of the main conversation as provided to the one distributed participant over the shared communications channel.

A system for providing conversation excerpts to a participant from simultaneous remote voice conversations, comprising:

• a communication module configured to receive a plurality of remote voice conversations between distributed participants provided over a shared communications channel;
• a floor module to identify from within the remote voice conversations each of a main conversation in which one of the distributed participants is actively involved and one or more subconversations between at least two other of the distributed participants;
• an identification module to define segments of interest to the one of the distributed participants comprising a conversation excerpt having a lower attention activation threshold for the one distributed participant;
• a sound module to mute the subconversations as provided to the one distributed participant over the shared communications channel;
• an analysis module to parse each of the subconversations into live conversation excerpts and to compare the live conversation excerpts to the segments of interest;
• a gap prediction module to continually monitor the main conversation and to predict one or more gaps between conversation flow in the main conversation;
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• an injection module to selectively inject the live conversation excerpts into the gaps of the main conversation as provided to the one distributed participant over the shared communications channel.

A method for providing conversation excerpts to a participant from simultaneous remote voice conversations, comprising:

• actively participating in a plurality of remote voice conversations between distributed participants provided over a shared communications channel;
• identifying from within the remote voice conversations each of a main conversation in which one of the distributed participants is actively involved and one or more subconversations between at least two other of the distributed participants;
• defining segments of interest to the one of the distributed participants comprising a conversation excerpt having a lower attention activation threshold for the one distributed participant;
• muting the subconversations as provided to the one distributed participant over the shared communications channel;
• parsing each of the subconversations into live conversation excerpts and comparing the live conversation excerpts to the segments of interest;
• continually monitoring the main conversation and predicting one or more gaps between conversation flow in the main conversation;
• and
• selectively injecting the live conversation excerpts into the gaps of the main conversation as provided to the one distributed participant over the shared communications channel.