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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 12, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2016
Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., Singapore, SG;
Gary D. Cudak, Wake Forest, NC (US);
Joseph F. Herman, Jr., Raleigh, NC (US);
Shareef F. Alshinnawi, Apex, NC (US);
J. Mark Weber, Wake Forest, NC (US);
Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., Singapore, SG;
Abstract
Using a conversation context to manage conference participants including receiving a request from an invitee to join a conference in progress; extracting audio from the conference; converting said audio to data describing the conference; matching data to a context, wherein the context comprises a specification of a subject matter of the conference and a list of authorized participants for the conference; comparing the invitee to the list of the authorized participants for the conference; responsive to determining that the invitee matches an authorized participant of the list of authorized participants for the conference, granting permission to the invitee to join the conference; and responsive to determining that the invitee does not match an authorized participant of the list of authorized participants for the conference, denying the invitee access to the conference.