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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 08, 2017
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Rachel K. E. Bellamy, Bedford, NY (US);
Jonathan H. Connell, II, Cortlandt-Manor, NY (US);
Robert G. Farrell, Cornwall, NY (US);
Brian P. Gaucher, Brookfield, CT (US);
Jonathan Lenchner, North Salem, NY (US);
David O. S. Melville, New York, NY (US);
Valentina Salapura, Chappaqua, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A computer-implemented method manages remote electronic drop-ins on local conversations. A local audio sensor transmits a captured conversation from a local cluster of persons to a remote communication device where members of the local cluster of persons are within a predefined distance of one another, and where the remote communication device is at a location that is beyond a human hearing range from the local audio sensor. One or more processors determine that the captured conversation is about a particular topic. A request from a remote user is received from the remote communication device to electronically drop in on a particular remote cluster of persons who are having a conversation about the particular topic. In response to receiving the request from the remote user, one or more processors selectively connect a local communication device proximate to the cluster of persons to the remote communication device.