Microsoft patents AI assistants that assign specific roles to meeting attendees

1. A computer-implemented method for managing agents for individual participants of a plurality of participants of a meeting, the computer-implemented method for execution on a system comprising: analyzing content shared before or during the meeting to determine tasks associated with the meeting, wherein the tasks are each determined from at least one of a meeting agenda, prior or parallel message communications relating to the meeting, and a context of live vocal communication discussion between the plurality of participants; identifying individual roles based on the tasks, wherein the individual roles are selected based on a mapping of the individual tasks and the individual roles; selecting a subset of participants from the plurality of participants of the meeting, the selection of the subset of participants being based on a mapping of a role to an attribute of a user profile or activity detected from the subset of participants having matching criteria with respect to one of the individual roles, wherein the activity detected from the subset of participants includes at least one of a level of speech activity, prior or live message communication, or a context of a live discussion between the plurality of participants; assigning the individual roles to the individual participants of the subset of participants, wherein the assignment of an individual role to an individual participant is based a proficiency identified for the individual role having matching criteria with the activity of the individual participant; and according to each assigned individual role, deploying an individual agent for each of the individual participants of the subset of participants, wherein the individual agent is configured to perform a first set of functions that map to the individual role of the individual participant, the agent is deployed for performing one or more tasks for the individual participant, and the agent is not deployed for a participant not having the corresponding assigned individual role, the agent that is configured to perform the first set of functions is separate and operates independently from a second agent assigned to another role, the second agent is configured to perform a second set of functions that is separate and different than the first set of functions.