US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Feb. 17 for "Automatic extraction of conversation highlights" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,580, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Automatic extraction of conversation highlights" was invented by Varsha Ravikumar Embar (Montreal) and Karthik Raghunathan (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes techniques for generating a conversation summary. The techniques may include processing at least one statement indication of the conversation to determine at least one statement that is a candidate highlight of the conversation. The techniques may further include applying linguistic filtering rules to the candidate highlight to determine the candidate highl...