Patents by Inventor Min Xiao-Devins
Min Xiao-Devins 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).
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Publication number: 20250106357Abstract: A transcript of a conference (e.g., a video conference, an audio conference, or a telephone call with two or more participants) is processed to extract a conference summary. The transcript includes strings that are associated with respective timestamps and respective speaker identifiers. Speaker segments—sequences of consecutive strings attributed to the same speaker—are identified in the transcript. A speaker segment is selected based on its duration in time and one or more strings are selected from with the selected speaker segment for inclusion in the conference summary. A short video conference summary or a short audio conference summary is then generated using timestamps from the transcript associated with strings (e.g., sentences) that have been selected for inclusion in the conference summary. The short video or audio summary may be presented to users to enable efficient storage and transmission of information from the conference within a unified communications system.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2024Publication date: March 27, 2025Inventors: Tao Huang, Xiaoli Song, Hui Wen, Melinda Min Xiao-Devins, Ran Yan, Fangyi Zhao
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Patent number: 12200402Abstract: A transcript of a conference (e.g., a video conference, an audio conference, or a telephone call with two or more participants) is processed to extract a conference summary. The transcript includes strings that are associated with respective timestamps and respective speaker identifiers. Speaker segments—sequences of consecutive strings attributed to the same speaker—are identified in the transcript. A speaker segment is selected based on its duration in time and one or more strings are selected from with the selected speaker segment for inclusion in the conference summary. A short video conference summary or a short audio conference summary is then generated using timestamps from the transcript associated with strings (e.g., sentences) that have been selected for inclusion in the conference summary. The short video or audio summary may be presented to users to enable efficient storage and transmission of information from the conference within a unified communications system.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2023Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.Inventors: Tao Huang, Xiaoli Song, Hui Wen, Melinda Min Xiao-Devins, Ran Yan, Fangyi Zhao
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Publication number: 20240428791Abstract: Methods and systems provide for extracting filler words and phrases from a communication session. In one embodiment, the system receives a transcript of a conversation involving one or more participants produced during a communication session; extracts, from the transcript, utterances including one or more sentences spoken by the participants; identifies a subset of the utterances spoken by a subset of the participants associated with a prespecified organization; extracts filler phrases within the subset of utterances, the filler phrases each comprising one or more words representing disfluencies within a sentence, where extracting the filler phrases includes applying filler detection rules; and presents, for display at one or more client devices, data corresponding to the extracted filler phrases.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2024Publication date: December 26, 2024Inventors: Davide Giovanardi, Vijay Parthasarathy, Min Xiao-Devins, Xiaojing Zhao
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Publication number: 20240428780Abstract: Methods and systems provide for presenting time distributions of participants across topic segments in a communication session. In one embodiment, the system connects to a communication session with a number of participants; receives a transcript of a conversation between the participants produced during the communication session, the transcript including timestamps for each utterance of a speaking participant; determines, based on analysis of the transcript, a meeting type for the communication session; generates a number of topic segments for the conversation and respective timestamps for the topic segments; for each participant, analyzes the time spent by the participant on each of the generated topic segments in the meeting; and presents, to one or more users, data on the time distribution of participants for each topic segment and across topic segments within the conversation.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2024Publication date: December 26, 2024Inventors: Vijay Parthasarathy, David Dharmendran Rajkumar, Tao Tang, Min Xiao-Devins
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Patent number: 12142260Abstract: Methods and systems provide for presenting time distributions of participants across topic segments in a communication session. In one embodiment, the system connects to a communication session with a number of participants; receives a transcript of a conversation between the participants produced during the communication session, the transcript including timestamps for each utterance of a speaking participant; determines, based on analysis of the transcript, a meeting type for the communication session; generates a number of topic segments for the conversation and respective timestamps for the topic segments; for each participant, analyzes the time spent by the participant on each of the generated topic segments in the meeting; and presents, to one or more users, data on the time distribution of participants for each topic segment and across topic segments within the conversation.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2022Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.Inventors: Vijay Parthasarathy, David Dharmendran Rajkumar, Tao Tang, Min Xiao-Devins
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Publication number: 20240362551Abstract: A virtual assistant is configured to automatically identify tasks for a user by processing text from various applications of a unified communications platform (e.g., transcripts of conferences, voicemails, emails, and chat logs) to detect action items and infer associated action item data (e.g., task owner, location, and due date). For example, a virtual assistant system may be configured to utilize machine learning natural language understanding technology to extract action items from various input text to form a to-do list with due dates for the task owner. In some implementations, a two-tier machine learning model topology is used to identify action items in strings. The system may recognize named entities such as nouns, verbs, dates/times, locations of action item sentences. The output information may be displayed on a dashboard, in push notifications, or within other user interface aspects of a personal device, thus providing notification or task planning for personal assistance.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2024Publication date: October 31, 2024Inventor: Melinda Min Xiao-Devins
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Patent number: 12112748Abstract: Methods and systems provide for extracting filler words and phrases from a communication session. In one embodiment, the system receives a transcript of a conversation involving one or more participants produced during a communication session; extracts, from the transcript, utterances including one or more sentences spoken by the participants; identifies a subset of the utterances spoken by a subset of the participants associated with a prespecified organization; extracts filler phrases within the subset of utterances, the filler phrases each comprising one or more words representing disfluencies within a sentence, where extracting the filler phrases includes applying filler detection rules; and presents, for display at one or more client devices, data corresponding to the extracted filler phrases.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2022Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.Inventors: Davide Giovanardi, Vijay Parthasarathy, Min Xiao-Devins, Xiaojing Zhao
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Publication number: 20240313994Abstract: In one embodiment, the system connects to a communication session with a number of participants; receives a transcript of a conversation between the participants; extracts utterances from the transcript; associates a subset of the utterances with a first group of speakers and the remaining subset of the utterances with a second group of speakers; calculates one or more statistical metrics for a number of engagement metrics based on the utterances of the first group of speakers and the utterances of the second group of speakers; assigns a weight to each of the engagement metrics; determines an engagement score for the communication session based on the assigned weights for the engagement metrics; and presents, to one or more users, the engagement score for the communication session.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2024Publication date: September 19, 2024Inventors: Stephen Muchovej, Min Xiao-Devins
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Publication number: 20240275886Abstract: Voicemail spam detection is performed based on content of voicemail messages. The content of an incoming voicemail message is compared to a spam template that includes a representation of a spam voicemail. Spam templates may be generated based on spam indications provided by users for voicemail messages they have received. User indications for sufficiently similar voicemail messages may be aggregated by maintaining a vote count for a spam template that reflects how many times a user has indicated a matching voicemail message is spam. A spam template may also include an occurrence count that reflects how many times voicemail messages matching a spam template have been detected in a telephony system. An incoming voicemail message may be compared to spam templates and, responsive to a match of content and/or a corresponding vote count or occurrence count meeting a condition, the voicemail message may be identified as spam.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2024Publication date: August 15, 2024Inventors: Melinda Min Xiao-Devins, Haifeng Geng, Mengxiao Qian, Fengcai Sun, Hui Wen
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Patent number: 12034556Abstract: In one embodiment, the system connects to a communication session with a number of participants; receives a transcript of a conversation between the participants; extracts utterances from the transcript; associates a subset of the utterances with a first group of speakers and the remaining subset of the utterances with a second group of speakers; calculates one or more statistical metrics for a number of engagement metrics based on the utterances of the first group of speakers and the utterances of the second group of speakers; assigns a weight to each of the engagement metrics; determines an engagement score for the communication session based on the assigned weights for the engagement metrics; and presents, to one or more users, the engagement score for the communication session.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2022Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.Inventors: Stephen Muchovej, Min Xiao-Devins
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Publication number: 20240211995Abstract: One example system event recommendation includes a processor and at least one memory device. The memory device includes instructions that are executable by the processor to cause the processor to receive a plurality of user features associated with a user, receive a plurality of event features, each of said event features associated with one or more events, and determine a predicted favorite score personalized for each user for each of the one or more events, the predicted favorite score based at least in part on the plurality of user features and the plurality of event features. The memory device also includes instructions that cause the processor to display at least one of the one or more events to the user based at least in part on the personalized predicted favorite score associated with each of the one or more events.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2021Publication date: June 27, 2024Inventors: Chih-Chao Chen, Wan Chen, Wei Dai, Senlin Feng, Haifeng Geng, Tao Huang, Zhibin Mao, Xiaoli Song, Mengxiao Qian, Yang Sun, Melinda Min Xiao-Devins, Qiaojie Yang, Fangyi Zhao, Huilian Zhao, Xiaotian Zhou
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Patent number: 12003671Abstract: Voicemail spam detection is performed based on content of voicemail messages. The content of an incoming voicemail message is compared to a spam template that includes a representation of a spam voicemail. Spam templates may be generated based on spam indications provided by users for voicemail messages they have received. User indications for sufficiently similar voicemail messages may be aggregated by maintaining a vote count for a spam template that reflects how many times a user has indicated a matching voicemail message is spam. A spam template may also include an occurrence count that reflects how many times voicemail messages matching a spam template have been detected in a telephony system. An incoming voicemail message may be compared to spam templates and, responsive to a match of content and/or a corresponding vote count or occurrence count meeting a condition, the voicemail message may be identified as spam.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2021Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.Inventors: Melinda Min Xiao-Devins, Haifeng Geng, Mengxiao Qian, Fengcai Sun, Hui Wen
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Publication number: 20240163400Abstract: A transcript of a conference (e.g., a video conference, an audio conference, or a telephone call with two or more participants) is processed to extract a conference summary. The transcript includes strings that are associated with respective timestamps and respective speaker identifiers. Speaker segments—sequences of consecutive strings attributed to the same speaker—are identified in the transcript. A speaker segment is selected based on its duration in time and one or more strings are selected from with the selected speaker segment for inclusion in the conference summary. A short video conference summary or a short audio conference summary is then generated using timestamps from the transcript associated with strings (e.g., sentences) that have been selected for inclusion in the conference summary. The short video or audio summary may be presented to users to enable efficient storage and transmission of information from the conference within a unified communications system.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2023Publication date: May 16, 2024Inventors: Tao Huang, Xiaoli Song, Hui Wen, Melinda Min Xiao-Devins, Ran Yan, Fangyi Zhao
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Publication number: 20240113906Abstract: Methods and systems provide for dynamically generated topic segments for a communication session. In one embodiment, the system connects to a communication session with a number of participants; receives a list of topics; receives a transcript of a conversation between the participants produced during the communication session, the transcript including timestamps for a number of utterances associated with speaking participants; for each topic in the list of topics, segments the utterances into one or more topic segments based on the topic; for each of the segments, classifies whether the topic segment is related to the topic, and transmits, to one or more client devices, a list of the topic segments for the communication session.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Davide Giovanardi, Helgi Hilmarsson, Stephen Muchovej, Mengxiao Qian, Xiaoli Song, Min Xiao-Devins
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Publication number: 20240029727Abstract: Methods and systems provide for dynamic conversation alerts within a communication session. In one embodiment, the system presents, to a client device associated with a user of a communication platform, a user interface (“UP”) including a prompt for the user to submit one or more alert phrases, each alert phrase being associated with a category; receives, from the client device, a list of submitted alert phrases; and receives a transcript of a communication session between participants. For each utterance in the transcript, the system determines whether one or more predictions of relatedness are present between the utterance and one or more alert phrases from the list of submitted alert phrases. The system then transmits, to the client device, a list of related categories, each related category including one or more timestamps of utterances for which a prediction of relatedness is present for an alert phrase associated with that category.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2022Publication date: January 25, 2024Inventors: Davide Giovanardi, Stephen Muchovej, Xiaoli Song, Min Xiao-Devins
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Patent number: 11876633Abstract: Methods and systems provide for dynamically generated topic segments for a communication session. In one embodiment, the system connects to a communication session with a number of participants; receives a list of topics; receives a transcript of a conversation between the participants produced during the communication session, the transcript including timestamps for a number of utterances associated with speaking participants; for each topic in the list of topics, segments the utterances into one or more topic segments based on the topic; for each of the segments, classifies whether the topic segment is related to the topic, and transmits, to one or more client devices, a list of the topic segments for the communication session.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2022Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.Inventors: Davide Giovanardi, Helgi Hilmarsson, Stephen Muchovej, Mengxiao Qian, Xiaoli Song, Min Xiao-Devins
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Patent number: 11863711Abstract: A transcript of a conference is processed to extract a conference summary. The transcript includes strings that are associated with respective timestamps and respective speaker identifiers. Speaker segments—sequences of consecutive strings attributed to the same speaker—are identified in the transcript. A speaker segment is selected based on its duration in time and one or more strings are selected from with the selected speaker segment for inclusion in the conference summary. A short video conference summary or a short audio conference summary is then generated using timestamps from the transcript associated with strings that have been selected for inclusion in the conference summary. The short video or audio summary may be presented to users to enable efficient storage and transmission of information from the conference within a unified communications system.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.Inventors: Tao Huang, Xiaoli Song, Hui Wen, Melinda Min Xiao-Devins, Ran Yan, Fangyi Zhao
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Publication number: 20230353407Abstract: Methods and systems provide for dynamically generated topic segments for a communication session. In one embodiment, the system connects to a communication session with a number of participants; receives a list of topics; receives a transcript of a conversation between the participants produced during the communication session, the transcript including timestamps for a number of utterances associated with speaking participants; for each topic in the list of topics, segments the utterances into one or more topic segments based on the topic; for each of the segments, classifies whether the topic segment is related to the topic, and transmits, to one or more client devices, a list of the topic segments for the communication session.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2022Publication date: November 2, 2023Inventors: Davide Giovanardi, Helgi Hilmarsson, Stephen Muchovej, Mengxiao Qian, Xiaoli Song, Min Xiao-Devins
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Publication number: 20230283496Abstract: In one embodiment, the system connects to a communication session with a number of participants; receives a transcript of a conversation between the participants; extracts utterances from the transcript; associates a subset of the utterances with a first group of speakers and the remaining subset of the utterances with a second group of speakers; calculates one or more statistical metrics for a number of engagement metrics based on the utterances of the first group of speakers and the utterances of the second group of speakers; assigns a weight to each of the engagement metrics; determines an engagement score for the communication session based on the assigned weights for the engagement metrics; and presents, to one or more users, the engagement score for the communication session.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2022Publication date: September 7, 2023Inventors: Stephen Muchovej, Min Xiao-Devins
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Publication number: 20230245646Abstract: Methods and systems provide for presenting time distributions of participants across topic segments in a communication session. In one embodiment, the system connects to a communication session with a number of participants; receives a transcript of a conversation between the participants produced during the communication session, the transcript including timestamps for each utterance of a speaking participant; determines, based on analysis of the transcript, a meeting type for the communication session; generates a number of topic segments for the conversation and respective timestamps for the topic segments; for each participant, analyzes the time spent by the participant on each of the generated topic segments in the meeting; and presents, to one or more users, data on the time distribution of participants for each topic segment and across topic segments within the conversation.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2022Publication date: August 3, 2023Inventors: Vijay Parthasarathy, David Dharmendran Rajkumar, Tao Tang, Min Xiao-Devins