Automated Conferencing Bridge for Seamless Device Joining
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Solution Overview
Problem
The advent of mobile telephony has disrupted the convenience of easily joining ongoing conversations, as each user has a separate mobile phone number and line, requiring active notification or pre-designated dialing for conference calls, leading to disjointed communication sessions.
Innovation Solution
A method and system for automated conferencing that detects established communication sessions and notifies associated devices to join, allowing for seamless integration of third-party devices into existing calls through VoIP technology and network protocols like SIP, enabling automatic conferencing across various networks.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If each user has a separate mobile phone number and line, then user identification and call routing become more precise, but the ease of joining ongoing conversations is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a conference bridge as an intermediary component that mediates between multiple mobile users with separate lines. The bridge receives notifications about ongoing calls and facilitates automatic joining by acting as a central coordination point, thus preserving individual user identification while enabling easy conversation joining.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-configuring conference bridges and pre-establishing notification mechanisms before actual conferencing needs arise. When a call is initiated, the system proactively sets up the conference bridge and sends notifications in advance, allowing users to join seamlessly without manual dialing or coordination at the moment of joining.
2Ease of operation
If automatic conferencing is implemented, then convenience of joining conversations is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the complex conferencing logic from individual mobile phones and places it in dedicated conference bridge components. This separation allows simple user devices to maintain ease of operation while the complexity of automatic notification, bridge establishment, and call management is handled by specialized infrastructure components.
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AI summary
Methods and system for automating conferencing in a communication session are provided herein. In some embodiments, a method for automating conferencing in a communication session includes establishing a communication session between a first end-user device and a second end-user device; receiving a first notification message from the first end-user device indicating that the communication session is at least one of visible or joinable by one or more devices associated with the first end-user device, wherein the one or more devices are associated with the first end-user device when the one or more devices are one of (i) pre-registered and stored with an association to the first end-user device, (ii) pre-authenticated to tether the one or more devices to the first end-user device, or (iii) pre-associated with a same user account profile; and sending a second notification message to the one or more devices associated with the first end-user device.