Collaboration Timeline Artifact Indexing via Phonetic Search
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Solution Overview
Problem
Collaboration sessions lack effective methods to capture and retrieve artifacts generated during the session, making it difficult to determine the underlying reasons for decisions made, as audio recordings do not include visual outputs from collaboration applications.
Innovation Solution
A collaboration timeline is generated by a media server that captures artifacts with time-indexed entries, allowing for the identification and retrieval of relevant discussions surrounding the artifacts, using a media stream with phonetic indexing for search functionality.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If audio recording devices are used to record collaboration sessions, then the entire call can be recorded, but the relevant portions and artifacts become difficult to find and retrieve
Solution Approach 1:
The audio recording is segmented into multiple portions based on time indices, and artifacts are associated with specific time segments. This allows users to quickly locate and retrieve only the relevant portions of the collaboration session where specific artifacts were generated, rather than searching through the entire recording.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates a copy of the collaboration session that includes both audio and visual artifacts, with artifacts linked to specific time indices. This copy serves as an indexed reference that enables rapid location of relevant content without requiring users to manually search through the complete recording.
2Loss of information
If audio recording is used, then the collaboration session can be recorded, but artifacts generated by collaboration applications are not captured
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges audio recording with artifact capture by associating artifacts with time indices from the audio stream. This integration allows the recording system to capture both spoken words and visual artifacts generated during the collaboration session, providing a complete record without requiring separate complex recording systems for each medium.
3Ease of operation
If artifacts are captured and linked to time indices, then relevant discussions can be easily located, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically generates a timeline by processing artifacts and assigning time indices, providing feedback about when each artifact was created during the collaboration session. This automated feedback mechanism simplifies the user experience by presenting pre-organized, time-stamped artifact information without requiring users to manually analyze or sort through raw data.
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AI summary
A method and apparatus for generating a collaboration timeline which illustrates application artifacts in context. A collaboration session includes a plurality of participants. Each participant collaborates via a corresponding processing device. Media streams associated with the plurality of participants are received during the collaboration session and a collaboration media stream based on the media streams is generated. A collaboration application generates an artifact during the collaboration session. A timeline entry is generated in a collaboration timeline, the timeline entry including time information identifying a time associated with the artifact, and a reference to the artifact.