Patent Document ID: 8234289
Application ID: 11958176

Base Claim:
1. A computer implemented method for managing conversational input, comprising: monitoring a first oral conversation between a user of a communications device and a first party; automatically detecting, by a processing unit operably connected to the communications device, a triggering event by detecting more than one voice at a time during the first oral conversation, wherein the triggering event is an interruption during an oral statement begun by one of the user and the first party; responsive to detecting the triggering event, generating a conversation stub that includes words spoken during the oral statement before the oral statement was interrupted and a topic of the first oral conversation; storing the conversation stub; responsive to detecting a second oral conversation occurring between the user of the communications device and a second party, determining whether the second party has expertise regarding the topic of the first oral conversation, wherein expertise regarding a topic is an above average ranking of an individual's knowledge of the topic when compared with other individuals' knowledge of the topic; responsive to determining that the second party has expertise regarding the topic of the first oral conversation, presenting the conversation stub to the user in a graphical user interface of the communications device during the second conversation; and responsive to determining that the interruption has ended, presenting the conversation stub to the user in the graphical user interface of the communications device during one of the first oral conversation and a subsequent oral conversation between the user and the first party.

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Claim 4:
4. The computer implemented method of claim 1 , and further comprising: determining whether the topic of the first oral conversation has been discussed during the second conversation; and responsive to determining that the topic of the first oral conversation has been discussed during the second conversation, deleting the stored conversation stub and broadcasting a message to other communications devices storing the conversation stub to delete their respective conversation stubs.