NLP Framework for Multi-Party Communication Insights

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current methods for summarizing and recalling content from multi-party communications, such as conferences and meetings, rely on manual notes or unreliable digital transcripts, requiring human input for context and relevance determination, which is inefficient and prone to errors.

Innovation Solution

A natural language processing framework that generates insights from multi-party communications by diarizing audio data, identifying speakers, and applying summarization models to produce automated summaries, keywords, and chapterized insights, enabling efficient and accurate content extraction.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If manual notes or digital transcripts are used to summarize multi-party communications, then human input can provide context and relevance determination, but the process becomes inefficient and prone to errors

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveaccuracy of content summarizationVSAvoidefficiency of summarization process
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables automated self-service summarization by having the communication system itself perform the summarization task through integrated diarization and natural language processing, eliminating the need for external human annotators while maintaining high accuracy through machine learning models trained on communication patterns

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces the mechanical human process of manual note-taking and transcript review with an automated electronic system that uses speech recognition, diarization, and natural language processing algorithms to generate summaries, thereby eliminating human error and significantly improving processing efficiency

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

2Productivity

If automated summarization systems are implemented, then processing efficiency improves, but the need for human input for context determination may reduce accuracy

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveefficiency of summarization processVSAvoidaccuracy of context and relevance determination
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary diarization to identify and segment speaker contributions before summarization, pre-organizing the communication data into structured segments with metadata about participants, roles, and communication dynamics, which enables the summarization model to accurately capture context without human intervention

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system incorporates feedback mechanisms where the summarization model continuously refines its output based on the structured diarized data, adjusting its predictions to accurately reflect speaker intent, communication patterns, and contextual relevance through iterative processing of the segmented communication segments

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Loss of information

If detailed digital transcripts are generated, then complete communication content is captured, but the data requires extensive human processing to extract meaningful insights

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecompleteness of communication contentVSAvoidtime required for human processing
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts only the essential and relevant information from complete communication transcripts by applying natural language processing techniques that identify key topics, decisions, action items, and speaker contributions, separating meaningful insights from redundant dialogue while maintaining information completeness

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent segments the complete communication transcript into organized sections based on speaker, topic, and temporal structure through diarization, creating manageable chunks that can be automatically processed and summarized without requiring human reviewers to analyze the entire transcript sequentially, thereby dramatically reducing processing time

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS20240428799A1System and method for determining multi-party communication insights
Publication Date: 2024.12.26 VERIZON PATENT & LICENSING INC
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AI summary

A natural language processing (NLP) framework enables providing content and participant insights from multi-party communications (MPC). MPC insights can include a summary of the MPC, relevant keywords or highlights of the MPC, chapter names, and a title or header of the MPC. For a given speaker, the MPC insights can include a speaker specific focused summary or relevant keywords.