Proxy Bot Representing Users via Collaboration History Word Clouds

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Solution Overview

Problem

Virtual collaborations and meetings often suffer from scheduling conflicts and missed valuable input from absent participants, leading to unintended directions and overlooked contributions.

Innovation Solution

A method and system that uses a proxy bot to represent users in virtual collaborations by leveraging a word cloud generated from virtual collaboration history and invites, allowing for effective summarization and intelligent participation through TF-IDF modules and neural networks.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If a proxy bot is introduced to represent absent users in virtual collaborations, then the quality of virtual meeting summarization and retention of absent participants' inputs is improved, but the device complexity and system architecture become more complex

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveloss of absent participants' inputVSAvoidsystem architecture complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a proxy bot as an intermediary entity that represents absent users in virtual collaborations. The proxy bot analyzes collaboration history, generates word clouds representing absent users' perspectives, and actively participates in meetings to provide input that would otherwise be lost. This intermediary approach resolves the contradiction by preventing information loss while accepting the necessary increase in system complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent creates a digital copy (proxy bot) of the absent user that mimics their collaboration patterns, preferences, and input styles. By copying the user's historical behavior and representing it through the proxy bot, the system preserves the absent participant's contributions without requiring their physical presence, thus reducing information loss while managing complexity through automation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

2Measurement precision

If multiple modules and neural networks are used to generate word clouds and represent users, then the accuracy of user representation is improved, but the computational resources and processing time increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveaccuracy of user representationVSAvoidcomputational resources
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The patent performs preliminary analysis of collaboration history before the actual virtual meeting occurs. The system pre-generates word clouds and prepares proxy bot representations based on historical data, so that during the meeting, the proxy bot can quickly and accurately represent the absent user without requiring intensive real-time computation. This preliminary action reduces computational load during critical moments while maintaining high accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces complex real-time analysis with pre-computed models and neural networks that have been trained on historical collaboration data. Instead of performing heavy computational tasks during the meeting itself, the system uses pre-trained models to generate accurate representations efficiently, substituting intensive real-time processing with optimized, pre-prepared computational artifacts.

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

3Productivity

If the proxy bot actively monitors and participates in virtual collaborations, then the productivity and value of collaborations are improved, but the time required for processing and analysis increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecollaboration effectivenessVSAvoidprocessing time
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements continuous monitoring and analysis of collaboration history to build and update the proxy bot's understanding of the absent user. This continuous process ensures that the proxy bot is always ready to provide accurate representation without requiring intensive processing at critical moments. The useful action of analysis continues in the background, maintaining productivity while managing time requirements through distributed, ongoing processing.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #20Continuity of useful action

Data Source

PatentUS20240169318A1Invoking a representative bot by leveraging cognitive assets
Publication Date: 2024.05.23 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINE CORPORATION
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AI summary

A method, computer system, and a computer program product for enabling virtual collaboration is provided. The present invention may include receiving a virtual collaboration history. The present invention may include generating a first module, wherein the first module is generated based on an analysis of the virtual collaboration history. The present invention may include receiving a virtual collaboration invite and generating a second module based on the virtual collaboration invite. The present invention may include monitoring a virtual collaboration. The present invention may include generating a word cloud. The present invention may include representing a user in the virtual collaboration using a proxy bot, wherein the proxy bot leverages the word cloud.