Patent ID: 9661474
Date: 2017-05-23
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for designating participants of a conference call as having one or more topic skills, comprising: a computing device determining one or more skills associated with one or more participants in a conference call by communicating with an employer server that provides credentials of the one or more participants; the computing device determining topics associated with a first time period of the conference call, wherein the step of determining topics is based on utilizing voice recognition of the conference call and identifying a first and a second topic associated with the first time period of the conference call by matching one or more phrases that are repeated above a threshold amount during the conference call to the first and the second topic; the computing device visually designating a first set of participants as experts for the first topic based on matching at least one skill of the first set of participants to the first topic by cross-referencing a skills dictionary, wherein the skills dictionary comprises a group of skills associated with the first topic; and the computing device visually designating a second set of participants as experts for the second topic based on matching at least one skill of the second set of participants to the second topic by cross-referencing the skills dictionary, wherein the skills dictionary comprises a group of skills associated with the second topic.