US Patent 12008997 Determination of conference participant contribution

A conferencing system for determining a participant's status during a conference may include (1) a conference server configured to identify one or more conference topics, and (2) one or more participant devices in communication with the conference server, wherein each participant device is assigned to a unique participant. A natural language processor (NLP) may be in communication with the conference server, wherein the NLP processor is configured to identify a participant and one or more topics on which the participant comments. A ranking engine is configured to identify one or both of (a) whether the participant was an originator of an idea related to a conference topic, and (b) the participant's contribution to a conference topic.