ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,987, issued on May 20, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Topic relevance detection in video conferencing" was invented by Nick Swerdlow (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conference system automatically detects a topic in a discussion between two or more participants in a conference based on a transcription of an audio component of the conference. The conference system determines that the discussion is a side conversation based on a determination that the topic is not related to any discussion points of the conference. The conference system determines which participants are related to th...