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Outreach was granted a patent for real-time meeting action tracking.

What happened

In July 2026 Outreach patented technology for assigning and monitoring follow-up tasks during sales calls, team meetings, and other spoken conversations.

Source

Abstract

Described herein is a system for automatically detecting and assigning action items in a real-time conversation and determining whether such action items have been completed. The system detects, during a meeting, a plurality of action items and an utterance that corresponds to a completed action item. Responsive to detecting the utterance, the system generates a similarity score with respect to a first action item of the plurality of action items. The system compares the similarity score to a first threshold. Responsive to determining that the similarity score does not exceed the first threshold, the system generates a second similarity score with respect to a second action item of the plurality of action items. The system compares the second similarity score to a second threshold, which exceeds the first threshold. Responsive to determining that the second similarity score exceeds the second threshold, the system marks the second action item as completed.

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Grant date
Jul 14, 2026
Inventors
4
Tech area
speech / audio AI
Patent number
US12682899

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People

  • Rohit Ganpat ManeInventor
  • Abhishek AbhishekInventor
  • Krishnamohan Reddy NareddyInventor
  • Rajiv GargInventor

Details

Primary CPC class
G10L 15/22 (Speech analysis or synthesis; speech/voice recognition; audio coding)
USPTO assignee
Outreach Corporation
What the invention does
A system that listens for commitments in a live conversation, assigns them to participants, and recognizes later speech that indicates a task is complete.

Topics and mentions

Tags

  • Intellectual Property
  • Research & Development
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Speech Recognition
  • Automation

Technologies named

  • speech recognition
  • conversation intelligence
  • task automation

Extraction

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Sep 17, 2026
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