Communication Broker for Anonymous Session Scheduling
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing communication network architectures face challenges in maintaining user anonymity while facilitating communication sessions, particularly in online dating and matching services, where users desire to keep their identity and personal information private and schedule sessions conveniently.
Innovation Solution
A communication broker system that maps user identities to anonymous profiles, reconciles calendars for available time slots, and establishes secure communication sessions without exchanging personal contact information, using protocols like SIP to ensure anonymity and convenience.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Object-affected harmful factors
If user identity and personal information are kept anonymous in online dating services, then user privacy and safety are improved, but the ability to schedule and facilitate communication sessions becomes more difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a communication broker as an intermediary system that mediates between users. The broker receives calendar information from users, reconciles availability, and facilitates communication session scheduling without requiring users to disclose their real identities or personal contact information. This intermediary architecture enables convenient session scheduling while preserving user anonymity and privacy.
2Productivity
If calendar information is reconciled to find available time slots, then communication session scheduling efficiency is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The communication broker performs calendar reconciliation automatically without requiring manual intervention from users. The system self-manages the complexity of finding available time slots by processing calendar information, identifying conflicts, and proposing suitable scheduling options. This automation improves scheduling efficiency while the modular broker architecture keeps system complexity manageable.
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AI summary
A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes receiving a request at a communication broker for a communication session to involve a first endpoint and a second endpoint, where the communication broker includes a processor and a memory element. The method may also include evaluating first calendar information for a first end user associated with the first endpoint and second calendar information for a second end user associated with the second endpoint. The method may also include reconciling the first calendar information with the second calendar information to provide a time slot for the communication session. Additionally, the method may include mapping first end user data to a first identity associated with the first end user, where the second endpoint is shown the first identity, and where the first end user data associated with the first endpoint is hidden from being shown to the second endpoint.