Patent ID: 11924370
Assignee: RINGCENTRAL, INC.
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 9:
10. A real-time communication and collaboration platform comprising:
a first application for processing at least one of an audio signal or a video signal received from at least two participants for enabling a real-time conversation between the at least two participants over a communications network, and
a second application for providing a digital assistant bot of a digital assistant unit for at least one of the at least two participants; the platform configured such that a first participant from the at least two participants is identifiable as an active speaker in a conversation by using audio signals received from the first participant via a microphone and the digital assistant unit is activatable for the first participant based on a detection of a predetermined event, wherein, in response to a determination that the first participant is authorized to access the digital assistant unit, the audio signals received from the first participant are transcribed using a voice recognition procedure to generate a transcription, and the transcription is analyzed to identify one or more voice commands therefrom.