Patent ID: 9582496
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06Q,G09B

Claim:
1. A computer program product, comprising: a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions readable by a processing circuit to cause the processing circuit to perform a method of facilitating a meeting of a group of participants, the method comprising: generating a data structure that represents a graph of words from speeches of the participants, as the words are received from the participants in electronic text form, wherein the graph includes a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges, each node representing a word or a phrase said by a participant, and each edge representing a temporal precedence of utterance of the words; analyzing the graph of words to determine cognitive states of each of the participants respectively; determining a combined cognitive state for a subgroup of participants, wherein the combined cognitive state for the subgroup of participants represents a composite of the cognitive states of each respective participant of the subgroup, wherein determining the combined cognitive state comprises: informing, electronically, at least one of the participants about the combined cognitive state of the subgroup of participants, wherein the informing comprises displaying the combined cognitive state on an electronic display.