Patents by Inventor Mark Yacovone

Mark Yacovone has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240153397
    Abstract: Methods and systems provide for virtual meeting coaching with content-based evaluation. In one embodiment, the system receives a set of coaching items including a number of questions each associated with an expected answer; connects to a coaching session including one or more participants and a virtual coaching agent; for each question and for at least a subset of the participants: transmitting the question, by the virtual coaching agent, to the client device used by the participant; receiving an answer to the question by the participant, the answer including media of the participant; receiving text of utterances spoken by the participant during the answer; generating one or more evaluation scores for the answer based on evaluating at least the content of the answer to the question; and transmitting an overall evaluation score for each of the subset of participants based on the generated evaluation scores for that participant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Wei Ji, Bilung Lee, Vijay Parthasarathy, David Dharmendran Rajkumar, Mark Yacovone
  • Publication number: 20240153398
    Abstract: Methods and systems provide for virtual meeting coaching with dynamically extracted content. In one embodiment, the system receives transcripts for a plurality of selected meetings from within a communication platform, the meetings being selected for question extraction; extracts, via a question extraction model, questions from the transcripts for the selected meetings; extracts, from the questions, a number of expected answers, each expected answer associated with one of the questions; connects to a coaching session with one or more participants and a virtual coaching agent; transmits, by the virtual coaching agent, at least a subset of the extracted questions to the participants; receives answers to the subset of the extracted questions by participants; and generates one or more evaluation scores for the participants corresponding to each of the answers, the evaluation scores being based at least in part on the extracted expected answers associated with the subset of the extracted questions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Wei Ji, Bilung Lee, Vijay Parthasarathy, David Dharmendran Rajkumar, Mark Yacovone