Intelligent Conversation Recommendation System

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conversations often face awkwardness or misinterpretation due to the failure in selecting appropriate content and manner of communication, leading to potential misunderstandings that can jeopardize achieving conversation goals, such as business transactions or social agreements.

Innovation Solution

A system that monitors real-time conversations using natural language processing and historical data to provide recommendations on conversational content and actions, determining the overall goal of the conversation and identifying objectives and conversational inputs with associated confidence levels to advance the conversation towards its successful resolution.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If participants select and communicate verbal or written information in conversations, then conversation goals can be achieved, but misunderstandings or awkwardness may occur leading to negative outcomes

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveconversation outcome reliabilityVSAvoidmisunderstanding and awkwardness
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The system continuously monitors conversation content, tone, and context in real-time, providing immediate feedback to participants about potential misunderstandings. The system analyzes conversation flow and offers corrective suggestions to prevent negative outcomes, creating a closed-loop feedback mechanism that improves conversation reliability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The system acts as an intermediary between conversation participants, analyzing their interactions and providing neutral third-party recommendations. This mediator function helps bridge communication gaps by suggesting alternative phrasing or approaches that reduce the risk of misunderstandings while maintaining the original intent.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Extent of automation

If the system monitors and analyzes conversation content in real-time, then intelligent recommendations can be provided, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveautomated conversation analysisVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Extent of automationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system employs a multi-functional architecture where a single integrated platform performs diverse tasks including natural language processing, tone analysis, context understanding, and recommendation generation. This universal system handles multiple conversation analysis functions simultaneously, reducing the need for separate specialized systems and managing complexity through consolidation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The system maintains and updates its own conversation history database automatically, learning from past interactions without requiring manual intervention. The system self-adjusts its analysis parameters based on accumulated data, reducing the complexity of manual system configuration and maintenance while improving automated analysis capabilities.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

3Measurement precision

If the system uses natural language processing and historical data analysis, then recommendation accuracy improves, but processing time and computational resources increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improverecommendation accuracyVSAvoidprocessing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system pre-processes and stores conversation history data in structured formats during past interactions, organizing information for rapid retrieval. By preparing historical data in advance with key features extracted and stored, the system reduces the computational burden during real-time analysis, enabling fast and accurate recommendations without sacrificing precision.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system applies different levels of analysis depth to different parts of the conversation based on context. Rather than uniformly analyzing every statement with maximum computational resources, the system focuses intensive processing on critical moments or ambiguous statements while using lighter analysis for routine exchanges, optimizing the balance between accuracy and processing time.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS10318639B2Intelligent action recommendation
Publication Date: 2019.06.11 KYNDRYL INC
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AI summary

Intelligent action recommendation in a conversation monitors content of a conversation among at least two participants in real time. An overall goal of the conversation that represents a motivation for at least one of the participants to engage in the conversation is identified. The overall goal of the conversation is to be achieved upon termination of the conversation. At least one conversational input relevant to the monitored content and having a likelihood of advancing the conversation to successful achievement of the overall goal of the conversation is identified. The identified conversational input is communicated to at least one of the participants in the conversation.