Patent ID: 11915702
Assignee: AFFECTIVE SOFTWARE, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 14:
15. A method that annotates a data representation of a monitored conversation, the method carried out in an affect-annotation system, the method comprising:
receiving one or more monitored-conversation data streams and/or data files;
processing the received monitored-conversation data streams and/or data files by multiple data-processing modules to generate, from each data-processing module, a sequence of affect-code probability distributions, referred to as “ACPDs,” each ACPD corresponding to a unit of language for affect coding, referred to as a “ULAC,” that represents both an utterance made in the monitored conversation as well as a time period of the monitored conversation during which the utterance was made;
for each ULAC identified in the monitored conversation, merging the multiple ACPDs output by the multiple data-processing modules corresponding to the ULAC to generate a result ACPDs corresponding to the ULAC; and
using the result ACPDs to generate and output an affect-annotated-timeline data structure that represents the monitored conversation to one or more of a display device, a data-storage appliance or device, and one or more downstream analysis systems.