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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 24, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2020
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Michael Bender, Rye Brook, NY (US);
Rhonda L. Childress, Austin, TX (US);
Minh Q. Pham, Austin, TX (US);
Kim A. Eckert, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for providing haptic feedback to participants of multi-party phone conversations that includes opening a communications session with a conference system for at least two users each having user specific communications devices, user specific conduct measuring devices, and user specific haptic feedback device registered with the conference system. Analyzing content of the communications session from content received by the conference system through the user specific communications device for at least one of the users; and capturing status for said at least two users from data measured by the user specific conduct measuring device for the at least two users. Determining with the conference system if the content of the communications session and the status of said at least two users calls for input by the user through said user specific communications device. Sending a feedback signal from the conference system to the user specific haptic feedback device.