Patent Document ID: 10127928
Application ID: 15082959

Base Claim:
1. A method for monitoring the emotional states of conversation participants, the method comprising: monitoring a conversation between a plurality of participants; determining a first emotional state of a first participant of the plurality of participants during a first segment of the monitored conversation; determining a second emotional state of the first participant during a second segment of the monitored conversation; displaying a timeline of the monitored conversation, wherein the timeline indicates the determined first emotional state of the first participant during the first segment of the monitored conversation and further indicates the determined second emotional state of the first participant during the second segment of the monitored conversation, and wherein the displayed timeline is operable by a user to initially display indications of the first emotional state during the first segment and to subsequently display indications of the second emotional state during the second segment.

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Claim 6:
6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first emotional state is determined based on the detection of first prosodic indicators in the speech of the first participant in the monitored conversation, wherein the second emotional state is determined based on the detection of second prosodic indicators in the speech of the first participant.