Patent ID: 7007235

Claim:
A conferencing comprising: (a) a plurality of participants; (b) a like plurality of facilitator agents, each of said facilitator agents associated with a corresponding one of said plurality of participants, each said plurality of facilitator agents including: (1) means for monitoring communication of a participant in the conferencing system; (2) means for comparing the communication of the participant to a predetermined set of communication passages; (3) means for providing a prompt to a participant in the conferencing system in response to the means for comparing finding a match between the communication of a participant and one of the predetermined set of communication passages; and (4) means for presenting a caricature representation that informs the user of its current process state; (c) a like plurality of social agents each of said social agents associated with a corresponding one of said plurality of participants, each of said social agents including: (1) means for monitoring relevant components of a design environment and suggesting appropriate actions to be taken by a participant; and (d) means for learning how to effectively represent each individual of a plurality of individuals in the design environment.