Cloud Service Provider Management for Meeting Content Aggregation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Managing user content across multiple independent cloud service providers (CSPs) is challenging due to the lack of integration and synchronization, making it difficult for users to access and manage content stored across different providers, especially during meetings.
Innovation Solution
A CSP management service that obtains user information, initiates access to user content, and provides dashboard-ready information including access links to meeting preparation services, enabling synchronization and management of user content across multiple CSPs based on meeting policies.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If users store content in multiple independent cloud service providers, then content storage capacity and provider selection flexibility are improved, but content access complexity and management difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a meeting preparation service as an intermediary layer between users and multiple cloud service providers. This service automatically discovers, aggregates, and manages content across different CSPs, providing a unified interface that abstracts away the complexity of multi-provider management while preserving the benefits of provider selection flexibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The meeting preparation service performs multiple functions: it discovers content across different CSPs, aggregates content from various providers, generates access links, and prepares meeting materials. This multi-functional approach consolidates what would otherwise require multiple separate tools, reducing overall system complexity for users.
2Reliability
If users manually access content from multiple CSPs, then content access control is improved, but time consumption and operational efficiency deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The meeting preparation service performs preliminary actions by automatically discovering and aggregating relevant content from multiple CSPs before the user needs it. It proactively prepares access links and organizes meeting materials, eliminating the need for users to manually search and retrieve content during time-sensitive operations.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables self-service by automatically managing content discovery, aggregation, and access link generation across multiple CSPs. The meeting preparation service autonomously handles these tasks without requiring user intervention, thereby maintaining secure access control while dramatically reducing the time users would otherwise spend on manual content retrieval.
3Ease of operation
If integration service is added to manage multiple CSPs, then content management capability is improved, but system complexity and integration overhead increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the complex integration task into distinct functional modules: content discovery, content aggregation, access link generation, and meeting preparation. By dividing the integration service into these manageable segments, each with a specific responsibility, the system achieves improved content management capability while keeping integration complexity contained within modular components.
Data Source
AI summary
A method for managing cloud service providers (CSPs) includes obtaining, by a CSP management service, CSP user information corresponding to a plurality of users, initiating access to user content in at least a CSP of the CSPs using the CSP user information, after obtaining the CSP user information: obtaining, from a meeting preparation service, a content provide request, wherein the content provide request corresponds to a meeting, in response to the content provide request: obtaining access links to each data object of the user content that corresponds to the meeting, and providing dashboard-ready information to the meeting preparation service, wherein the dashboard-ready information comprises the access links.