Condition-Based Contextual Messaging for Video Conferences
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing video and audio conferencing technologies lack personalized context for participants, leading to potential underinformed decisions due to limited information conveyance and lack of tailored messaging.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a system for contextual messaging in audiovisual conferences that provides personalized, condition-based messages to participants, using user interfaces to define message content, conditions, and recipient criteria, leveraging data from various sources to augment the conference experience.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If personalized contextual messages are added to conferences, then participant information completeness is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-configures message templates, conditions, and recipient criteria before the conference starts. Organizers can set up multiple contextual message scenarios in advance, which are then automatically triggered during the conference based on real-time conditions, eliminating the need for complex real-time decision-making during the meeting
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary messaging system that sits between the conference platform and participants. This intermediary layer handles the complexity of message routing, condition evaluation, and personalized delivery, keeping the core conference system simple while adding contextual information capabilities
2Loss of information
If conditional message monitoring is implemented, then message relevance is improved, but processing time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system monitors conference conditions at periodic intervals rather than continuously, checking for trigger events such as scheduled time points, speaker changes, or agenda milestones. This periodic monitoring reduces processing overhead while ensuring messages are delivered at appropriate moments
Solution Approach 2:
Conditions and triggers for contextual messages are predefined before the conference begins. The system only needs to evaluate whether pre-specified conditions are met during the conference, rather than creating and analyzing complex conditions in real-time, significantly reducing processing time
3Loss of information
If participant-specific messages are provided, then information针对性 is improved, but communication overhead increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system delivers customized information to specific participants or groups based on their roles, preferences, or needs identified in advance. Instead of sending the same message to everyone, the system tailors message content, timing, and delivery method to each recipient's local context, reducing unnecessary communication overhead
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the participant audience into different groups or individuals with specific message preferences. By dividing the communication stream into targeted segments rather than broadcasting to all participants, the system reduces overall communication overhead while improving information relevance for each segment
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AI summary
Generally discussed herein are devices, systems, and methods for contextual messaging in a conference. A method can include receiving, by a first user interface, data indicating content of a message, a recipient of the message, and a condition that, when satisfied during the conference, causes the message to be visually displayed during the audiovisual conference, while the conference is being held via an audiovisual conference application, monitoring user contextual data for whether the condition is satisfied, responsive to the condition being satisfied, augmenting audiovisual conference data from the audiovisual conference application to include the message resulting in augmented audiovisual data, and providing, to the recipient on a second user interface of the audiovisual conference application, a view of the augmented audiovisual data.