Patent Document ID: 9836530
Application ID: 15101744

Base Claim:
1. A computer program product embodied as instructions stored in a non-transitory computer readable medium that when executed by a processor cause the processor to: obtain data indicative of a word or phrase communicated during a meeting including a plurality of participants; for each participant, identify records electronically accessible to the participant, and associate each record with a tier from a hierarchy of record-relevancy tiers, wherein each tier is indicative of a relevance to the meeting; identify a set of explanations for the communication and associated scores, including for each participant, beginning with a most relevant tier, search the records accessible to the participant tier by tier until an explanation is identified, and responsive to identification of the explanation assign a score to the explanation according to the tier associated with the record in which the explanation is found; and determine a preferred explanation for the communication based upon the scores, and to cause a display of the preferred explanation.

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Claim 9:
9. The computer program product of claim 1 , wherein the instructions are to cause the processor to determine a first participant that communicated the word or phrase and an order in which the first participant communicated the word or phrase relative to other participants, and based upon the order, apply an adjustment factor when assigning the score to the explanation identified from records accessible to the first participants.