ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,687, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Modulate Inc. (Somerville, Mass.).
"Scoring system for content moderation" was invented by William Carter Huffman (Cambridge, Mass.), Michael Pappas (Cambridge, Mass.), Ken Morino (Acton, Mass.) and David Pickart (Chicago).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for online voice content moderation provides a multi-stage voice content analysis system. The system includes a pre-moderator stage having a toxicity scorer configured to provide a toxicity score for a given toxic speech content from a user. The toxicity score is a function of a platform content policy. The method generates a toxicity ...