Patents by Inventor Rachel Ostrand

Rachel Ostrand 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).

  • Patent number: 11816311
    Abstract: A method, computer system, and a computer program product for automatic detection of the need for a breakout virtual meeting is provided. The present invention may include receiving a computerized version of a real-time conversation between a plurality of participants of a virtual meeting. The present invention may also include determining whether a breakout virtual meeting is necessary among a subset of the plurality of participants of the virtual meeting. The present invention may further include, in response to determining that the breakout virtual meeting is necessary, automatically transmitting an alert indicating that the breakout virtual meeting is necessary among the subset of the plurality of participants of the virtual meeting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Rachel Ostrand, James Philip O'Connor
  • Publication number: 20230186942
    Abstract: A method, computer system, and a computer program product for detecting face mask usage based on a crowd sound is provided. The present invention may include capturing an audio stream including a crowd voice data. The present invention may also include analyzing the crowd voice data using a machine learning model to determine an amount of people wearing masks. The present invention may further include in response to determining that the amount of people wearing masks does not meet a compliance threshold, displaying a content to promote face mask usage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Rachel Ostrand, Vagner Figueredo de Santana, Alecio Pedro Delazari Binotto
  • Publication number: 20230147846
    Abstract: In an approach to monitoring and querying autobiographical events, one or more computer processors receive data from one or more sensors associated with a user. Based on the received data from the one or more sensors, one or more computer processors detect an autobiographical event associated with the user. One or more computer processors convert the received data from the one or more sensors into one or more observations associated with the autobiographical event. One or more computer processors convert the one or more observations into one or more questions associated with the one or more observations. One or more computer processors query the user with the one or more questions. One or more computer processors receive at least one response to the one or more questions from the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventors: Rachel Ostrand, Jenna Reinen, Ryan Anderson, Joseph Kozhaya
  • Publication number: 20220391849
    Abstract: In an approach to generating interview questions, a computer retrieves a description of a job. A computer extracts one or more job requirements from the description. A computer retrieves information associated with a candidate for the job. A computer extracts an experience from the information relevant to the job. A computer identifies a first set of one or more topics associated with the one or more job requirements and a second set of one or more topics associated with the experience resulting from a first semantic search of a corpus. A computer identifies a match between at least one topic of the first set of one or more topics associated with the one or more job requirements and at least one topic of the second set of one or more topics associated with the experience. A computer generates one or more interview questions based on the match.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: James Philip O'Connor, Rachel Ostrand
  • Patent number: 11488585
    Abstract: A method, computer system, and a computer program product for discussion relevance feedback associated with an electronic meeting is provided. The method may include determining a meeting topic associated with the electronic meeting and receiving audio data recording the vocal interactions of one or more meeting attendees. The method may further include generating a textual representation of the received audio data and then identifying a current discussion topic based on the generated textual representation. The method may further include determining a semantic distance between the identified current discussion topic and the determined meeting topic and generating discussion relevance feedback based on the determined semantic distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: James Philip O'Connor, Rachel Ostrand
  • Publication number: 20220303321
    Abstract: A method, computer system, and a computer program product for automatic detection of the need for a breakout virtual meeting is provided. The present invention may include receiving a computerized version of a real-time conversation between a plurality of participants of a virtual meeting. The present invention may also include determining whether a breakout virtual meeting is necessary among a subset of the plurality of participants of the virtual meeting. The present invention may further include, in response to determining that the breakout virtual meeting is necessary, automatically transmitting an alert indicating that the breakout virtual meeting is necessary among the subset of the plurality of participants of the virtual meeting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Rachel Ostrand, James Philip O'Connor
  • Publication number: 20220199102
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for amplifying a single voice during an audio conversation. One embodiment of the method may comprise receiving, by a computing device, an audio sample of speech from a user, and generating, by the computing device, a user-specific acoustic model for enhancement of speech by the user based upon the audio sample. The method may further comprise receiving a live audiovisual stream, the live audiovisual stream including live speech by the user during an audio conversation, wherein the live audiovisual stream includes background noise, and using, by the computing device, the user-specific acoustic model to selectively amplify the live speech during the live audiovisual stream without amplifying the background noise.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Rachel Ostrand, Sundar Saranathan, Fang Lu, Carla Paola Agurto Rios
  • Publication number: 20220157301
    Abstract: A method, computer system, and a computer program product for discussion relevance feedback associated with an electronic meeting is provided. The method may include determining a meeting topic associated with the electronic meeting and receiving audio data recording the vocal interactions of one or more meeting attendees. The method may further include generating a textual representation of the received audio data and then identifying a current discussion topic based on the generated textual representation. The method may further include determining a semantic distance between the identified current discussion topic and the determined meeting topic and generating discussion relevance feedback based on the determined semantic distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: James Philip O'Connor, Rachel Ostrand