Audio Video Communication Window Management System

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users face inconvenience and increased operational burden when engaging in multiple video communications, as existing systems require manual closure of unnecessary audio/video communication windows to avoid interference, and do not allow for individual selection of communication terminals.

Innovation Solution

A method and system that enables users to obtain and apply enabling instructions to enable audio/video communication in one window while disabling others, using a client and server setup with modules for instruction obtaining and control to manage multiple windows, allowing seamless operation and individualized communication management.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If multiple audio/video communication windows are opened simultaneously, then users can conduct multiple video communications, but audio/video interference occurs between windows

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecapability to conduct multiple video communicationsVSAvoidaudio/video interference between windows
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts the audio/video communication function from multiple windows and concentrates it to a single active window. When a user enables audio/video communication in one window, the system automatically disables audio/video communication in other windows, thereby eliminating interference while preserving the capability to conduct multiple communications sequentially.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

2Object-affected harmful factors

If users manually close unnecessary audio/video communication windows to avoid interference, then interference is prevented, but operational burden increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveaudio/video interference preventionVSAvoiduser operation convenience
Core Design Contradiction:
Object-affected harmful factorsVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system provides self-service by automatically managing audio/video communication states across multiple windows. When the user enables audio/video communication in one window, the system automatically disables it in other windows without requiring user intervention, thereby preventing interference while maintaining ease of operation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

3Device complexity

If all users in a chatting room are presented with the same video communication objects, then system simplicity is maintained, but user customization capability is lost

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesystem structure simplicityVSAvoiduser selection of communication terminals
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by allowing different users in the same chatting room to have customized video communication experiences. Each user can independently select and enable audio/video communication with specific users, creating localized customization without fundamentally changing the overall system structure.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS9258526B2Method and system for audio/video communication, and client thereof
Publication Date: 2016.02.09 TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) CO LTD
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AI summary

The disclosure relates to a method and system for audio/video communication, and a client. The method includes setting up a connection with a server for audio/video communication, opening multiple windows for the audio/video communication; obtaining an enabling instruction for enabling audio/video communication of any one of the windows for audio/video communication amongst the multiple windows for audio/video communication; disabling audio/video communication for other windows for audio/video communication amongst the multiple windows for audio/video communication according to the enabling instruction. The method and system for audio/video communication obtain enabling instructions from the user for enabling any window for audio/video communication, and disable audio/video communication of the other windows for audio/video communication according to the enabling instruction, while the user would not have to close those unneeded windows for audio/video communication one by one, thereby improving the operation facility greatly, saving time and loosening the user's burden, and meeting the users' demands.