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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2025

Filed:

Oct. 13, 2023
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Guang Han Sui, Beijing, CN;

Peng Hui Jiang, Beijing, CN;

Su Liu, Austin, TX (US);

Yu Zhu, Beijing, CN;

Jun Su, Beijing, CN;

Jun Feng Duan, Beijing, CN;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/40 (2022.01); G10L 21/003 (2013.01); G10L 25/90 (2013.01); G16Y 10/75 (2020.01); G16Y 20/40 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/04 (2013.01); G10L 21/003 (2013.01); G10L 25/90 (2013.01); G16Y 10/75 (2020.01); G16Y 20/40 (2020.01);
Abstract

In an approach to improve the privacy of chat groups within a virtual world, in response to identifying a private chat group has been created between two or more users, embodiments collect, by an internet of things (IoT) sensor set, a voice for each user in the private chat group. Further, embodiments analyze, by an analysis module, the collected voice, an intonation associated with the collected voice and an original pronunciation associated with the collected voice, and generate a de-content pronunciation based on the analysis of the collected voice, the intonation, and the original pronunciation. Additionally, embodiments output, by the IoT sensor set, the intonation and the original pronunciation to the two or more users in the private chat group and output, by the IoT sensor set and a client computer, the intonation and the de-content pronunciation to one or more users outside the private chat group.


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