Chat Link Auto-Conversion to Meeting Join Button

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Solution Overview

Problem

Connecting to online meeting services can be cumbersome due to the number of clicks and access steps required, especially when meeting links are presented in text-based communication sessions.

Innovation Solution

A method that monitors text-based communication sessions to detect meeting service links and converts them into graphical user interface elements, allowing users to connect to meetings with a single click by pattern matching and recognizing known meeting service URLs or SIP URIs, and displaying these elements within the communication session.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If meeting links are presented as text strings in communication sessions, then information can be transmitted simply, but users require multiple clicks and manual URL entry to access meetings

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveease of joining meetingsVSAvoidtime to access meetings

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces an intermediary component (chat server or client application) that automatically detects meeting service links in text messages and converts them into clickable graphical user interface elements. This intermediary process eliminates the need for users to manually copy and paste URLs, directly resolving the contradiction by reducing access steps while maintaining simple text-based link transmission.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary action by automatically detecting and converting meeting links before users attempt to access meetings. The chat server or application proactively transforms text strings into clickable buttons, eliminating the need for subsequent manual URL entry and multiple clicks, thus saving user time and improving ease of operation.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Ease of operation

If meeting links are converted to graphical user interface elements, then user interaction is simplified, but system processing complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveuser interaction simplicityVSAvoidsystem processing complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements self-service by enabling the chat client or server to automatically detect meeting service links and generate appropriate graphical user interface elements without requiring external intervention. The client application autonomously monitors text messages, identifies meeting links through pattern matching, and converts them to clickable buttons, simplifying user interaction while managing processing complexity through automated self-service mechanisms.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS10445410B2Auto convert meeting link to join button in chat

Publication Date: 2019.10.15 CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC

AI summary

A method is provided to simplify the connection to a meeting service based on a link presented in a text-based communication session. The method involves monitoring the text-based communication session among at least two participants and detecting in the text-based communication session a text string that represents a link to a meeting service. The text string is converted to a graphical user interface element that indicates a connection to the meeting service. The graphical user interface element is displayed in association with the text-based communication session.