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

Claim 0:
1. An affect-annotation system that receives input conversation data generated from a monitored conversation and processes the input conversation data to produce an electronic representation of the monitored conversation, the affect-annotation system comprising:
one or more processors;
one or more memories and mass-storage devices; and
computer instructions, stored in one or more of the one or more memories and mass-storage devices that, when executed by one or more of the one or more processors, implement
multiple data-processing modules that each receives all or a portion of the input conversation data and that outputs 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,”
a merger module that
receives the sequences of ACPDs output by the multiple data-processing modules,
extracts a set of ACPDs for each ULAC from the received sequences of ACPDs, and
merges each set of ACPDs to generate and output a result ACPD for each ULAC, and

an output-generation module that uses the result ACPDs output by the merger module to generate and output the electronic representation of the monitored conversation to one or more of a display device, a data-storage appliance or device, and one or more downstream analysis systems.