Conferencing Access Code Delivery System
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face difficulties accessing conferences using mobile devices, as they often lack easy access to email or calendar events containing access codes, leading to missed or delayed conference entries.
Innovation Solution
A system that stores a user's communication device address and associates a system access code with a user access code, allowing simplified conference access by comparing the entered conference access code with the user access code upon receiving a call request, and logging the user into the conference if they match.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If users access conferences using traditional access codes from email or calendar events, then conference security is maintained, but users face difficulty accessing conferences when using mobile devices without easy access to email or calendar
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary action by automatically providing the access code to the user's mobile device before the conference starts. The access code is pushed to the user's device in advance, eliminating the need for the user to manually retrieve it from email or calendar events at the moment of access.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary component (access code delivery system) that acts as a mediator between the conference management system and the user's mobile device. This intermediary automatically transmits the access code to the user's device, eliminating the need for the user to directly access email or calendar events.
2Reliability
If users manually retrieve access codes from email or calendar events, then accurate authentication is ensured, but users may miss or be delayed in accessing the conference
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements self-service by automatically delivering the access code to the user's mobile device without requiring the user to manually search through email or calendar events. The system serves itself by managing the access code distribution process, ensuring both accuracy and speed.
Solution Approach 2:
The access code is provided to the user in advance through automated delivery to their mobile device. This preliminary action ensures the user has the correct authentication information ready before the conference begins, eliminating delays while maintaining authentication accuracy.
3Reliability
If complex access codes are used for conference authentication, then security is maintained, but users have difficulty remembering the access codes
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary system that manages the interaction between complex security requirements and user convenience. The system handles the complex access codes securely while presenting them to users in an automated, easy-to-access manner on their mobile devices, eliminating the need for users to memorize them.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of requiring users to memorize complex access codes, the system creates a copy of the access code and delivers it directly to the user's mobile device. The user interacts with the copied version on their device rather than attempting to recall the original complex code from memory.
Data Source
AI summary
The system and method store an address of a communication device (e.g., a telephone number). A system access code of a user and a user access code are also stored (e.g., in a profile). The user access code is associated with the system access code. The user access code is used to simplify access to a conference. A call request with the address is received from the communication device to join a conference. In response to receiving the call request to join the conference, a request for a conference access code is sent to the user. The conference access code is received from the user. In response to receiving the conference access code, the conference access code is compared with the user access code. In response to the conference access code and the user access code matching, the user is logged into the conference using the system access code.