Patent ID: 11949638
Assignee: UNANIMOUS A. I., INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method for computer-mediated collaboration among a population of human participants using a plurality of networked computing devices, the method comprising:
providing a collaboration server running a collaboration application, the collaboration server in communication with the plurality of the networked computing devices, each computing device associated with one member of the population of human participants, the collaboration server defining a plurality of sub-groups of the population of human participants, the collaboration server comprising:
providing a local chat application on each networked computing device, the local chat application configured for displaying a conversational prompt received from the collaboration server, and for enabling real-time chat communication with other members of a sub-group assigned by the collaboration server, said real-time chat communication including sending chat input collected from the one member associated with the networked computing device to other members of the assigned sub-group; and
enabling through communication between the collaboration application running on the collaboration server and the local chat applications running on each of the plurality of networked computing devices, comprising the following steps:
(a) send the conversational prompt to the plurality of networked computing devices, the conversational prompt comprising a question to be collaboratively discussed by the population of human participants,
(b) present a representation of the conversational prompt to each member of the population of human participants on a display of the computing device associated with that member,
(c) divide the population of human participants into a first sub-group consisting of a first unique portion of the population, a second sub-group consisting of a second unique portion of the population, and a third sub-group consisting of a third unique portion of the population, wherein the first unique portion consists of a first plurality of members of the population of human participants, the second unique portion consists of a second plurality of members of the population of human participants and the third unique portion consists of a third plurality of members of the population of human participants,
(d) collect and store a first conversational dialogue in a first memory portion at the collaboration server from members of the population of human participants in the first sub-group during an interval via a user interface on the computing device associated with each member of the population of human participants in the first sub-group,
(e) collect and store a second conversational dialogue in a second memory portion at the collaboration server from members of the population of human participants in the second sub-group during the interval via a user interface on the computing device associated with each member of the population of human participants in the second sub-group,
(f) collect and store a third conversational dialogue in a third memory portion at the collaboration server from members of the population of human participants in the third sub-group during the interval via a user interface on the computing device associated with each member of the population of human participants in the third sub-group,
(g) process the first conversational dialogue at the collaboration server using a large language model to express a first conversational summary in conversational form,
(h) process the second conversational dialogue at the collaboration server using the large language model to express a second conversational summary in conversational form,
(i) process the third conversational dialogue at the collaboration server using the large language model to express a third conversational summary in conversational form,
(j) send the first conversational summary expressed in conversational form to each of the members of a first different sub-group, wherein the first different sub-group is not the first sub-group,
(k) send the second conversational summary expressed in conversational form to each of the members of a second different sub-group, wherein the second different sub-group is not the second sub-group,
(l) send the third conversational summary expressed in conversational form to each of the members of a third different sub-group, wherein the third different sub-group is not the third sub-group, and
(m) repeat steps (d) through (l) at least one time.