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Method and system for identifying trending topics in customer inquiries

Grant US12586080B2 Kind: B2 Mar 24, 2026

Assignee

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Inventors

Xinhui Ge, Veeravenkata Satya Sridhar Maddipati, Venkatasatya Premnath Ayyalasomayajula, Nikhil Verma, Mara Saveliev, John Theodore Nassif

Abstract

A system and method for detecting trending topics in customer inquiries includes retrieving customer inquiries from a plurality of data sources for a target time window and reference time windows and detecting trending keywords in the target time window as compared to keywords in the reference time windows. Responsive to detecting the trending keywords, customer inquiries in the target time window that include one or more of the trending keywords are collected and a weight is measured for each collected customer inquiry based on weights of detected trending keywords in each collected customer inquiry. A connection graph is generated for the detected trending keywords and the collected customer inquiries. The detected trending keywords are then clustered into a plurality of trending topics based on the connection graph, and the trending topics are ranked based on the measured weights of the collected customer inquiries associated with each trending topic.

CPC Classifications

G06Q 30/015

Filing Date

2023-08-14

Application No.

18449106

Claims

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