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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 29, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2022
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Heidi Kenyon, Bellingham, WA (US);
Choo Yei Chong, Redmond, WA (US);
Megan Elizabeth Slater, Seattle, WA (US);
Christopher Michael Dollar, Renton, WA (US);
Wende Ellen Copfer, Woodinville, WA (US);
Venkata Sreekanth Kannepalli, Redmond, WA (US);
Shabnam Erfani, Kirkland, WA (US);
Amy Lieh-An Huang, Seattle, WA (US);
Neha Parikh Shah, Glen Ridge, NJ (US);
Edward Michael Doran, Sammamish, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for facilitating convergence includes receiving a request to schedule a meeting at a meeting time, retrieve at least one of user data, contextual data, facility data and map data, the user data including a list of a plurality of meeting participants for the meeting, providing at least one of the list of the plurality of meeting participants, the meeting time, the user data, and the facility data to a trained machine-learning (ML) model for predicting a location at which two or more of the plurality of meeting participants will be located within a given time period prior to the meeting time, receiving the predicted location as an output from the trained ML model, and identifying a meeting location from among one or more meeting venues based on the predicted location of the two or more of the plurality of meeting participants, and providing the meeting location for display in a first selectable user interface element.