US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on Sept. 30 for "Digital assistant for detecting off-topic users in network-based group communication sessions" (Georgia, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,081, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Digital assistant for detecting off-topic users in network-based group communication sessions" was invented by Nigel Bradley (Canton, Ga.), Rashmi Palamadai (Naperville, Ill.) and Abdulkadir Hagi (Decatur, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for applying at least one remedial action within a communication session via at least one network in response to detecting via at least one detection model that the audio content of a first user is off-topic are described. For example, a processing system including...