Signaling correspondence between a meeting agenda and a meeting discussion

US8214242B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Ciprian Agapi · Boynton Beach, US
• William K. Bodin · Austin, US
• Charles W. Cross, Jr. · Wellington, US
• Brian D. Goodman · New Haven, US
• Frank L. Jania · Chapel Hill, US
• Darren M. Shaw · Chandler's Ford, GB

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 24, 2008
• Grant date: Jul 3, 2012
• Expiry date: Feb 7, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/1093
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Signaling correspondence between a meeting agenda and a meeting discussion includes: receiving a meeting agenda specifying one or more topics for a meeting; analyzing, for each topic, one or more documents to identify topic keywords for that topic; receiving meeting discussions among participants for the meeting; identifying a current topic for the meeting in dependence upon the meeting agenda; determining a correspondence indicator in dependence upon the meeting discussions and the topic keywords for the current topic, the correspondence indicator specifying the correspondence between the meeting agenda and the meeting discussion; and rendering the correspondence indicator to the participants of the meeting.