Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.v.

Zoran Stankovic

Karin Klabunde

Marcel Johannes Quist

Arjan Michiel Draisma

Rithesh Sreenivasan

The invention discloses a method for modifying functionality of a real-time communications system. The method comprises establishing a real-time communication session () between a first participant (A) and a second participant (B); responsive to detecting a trigger event, selecting a first redaction algorithm () of a plurality of redaction algorithms; and adding the first redaction algorithm to the real-time communication session as a virtual participant (C). The first redaction algorithm is configured to redact data appearing in a data stream to be transmitted from the first participant to the second participant during the real-time communication session.

Modifying functionality of a real-time communications systems

Dynamically modifying functionality of a real-time communications session

A chatbot may be invoked in an online communication session between two or more human users to share additional content in the communication session. To determine when to invoke the chatbot, e.g., at which point during their conversation, an interaction model may be trained on past conversation data between participants to determine so-termed interaction points in the past conversation data which are predictive of a subsequent sharing of additional content by one of the participants. Having generated the interaction model, the interaction model may be applied to an online communication session to detect such interaction points in a real-time or near real-time conversation between users and to invoke the chatbot to participate in the communication session in response to a detection.

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Zoran Stankovic