Conferencing System with Remote Terminal Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
In conventional electronic conference systems, participants need to manually download handouts and perform operations like joining or leaving a conference, which burdens the organizer with explaining terminal operations and increases complexity with the number of participants.
Innovation Solution
An information processing system with an administrator terminal that manages and controls screen-sharing terminals, allowing administrators to instruct and control participant terminals remotely for processes such as handout downloading, joining conferences, and other operations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If participants manually download handouts and perform operations on their terminals, then participants can independently access conference materials, but the organizer's burden increases due to needing to explain operations and the system complexity increases with more participants
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a server as an intermediary between the organizer and participant terminals. The server receives operation information from the organizer's terminal and distributes it to multiple participant terminals automatically. This mediator eliminates the need for the organizer to directly control each participant's terminal, reducing system complexity while maintaining operational independence.
Solution Approach 2:
Participant terminals automatically receive and execute operations without requiring manual intervention from participants or direct control from the organizer. The system enables self-service by having terminals autonomously process distributed operation information, such as automatically downloading handouts when instructed by the server.
2Reliability
If the organizer directly operates participant terminals to perform operations, then operations can be performed accurately, but the organizer's burden increases with the number of handouts or participants
Solution Approach 1:
The server acts as an intermediary that receives operation information from the organizer once and automatically distributes it to all participant terminals. This eliminates the need for the organizer to repeatedly operate each participant's terminal, maintaining operation accuracy through centralized control while dramatically improving organizer efficiency by reducing manual intervention to a single action.
Solution Approach 2:
The system segments the operation distribution task from the organizer's workload. Instead of the organizer directly controlling each terminal, the server handles the segmentation and distribution of operations to multiple terminals simultaneously, allowing the organizer to focus on creating operations while the system handles deployment.
3Quantity of substance
If handouts are downloaded before the conference, then participants have access to materials, but participants need to manually perform download operations which requires explanation from the organizer
Solution Approach 1:
Participant terminals automatically perform the download operation when they receive the appropriate instruction from the server. Participants do not need to manually initiate downloads or understand download procedures, as the terminal autonomously retrieves handouts from the server based on distributed operation information.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables handouts to be downloaded in advance of the conference through automated operations. The server can distribute download instructions before the conference starts, allowing participant terminals to automatically retrieve and prepare materials beforehand without requiring participant intervention or organizer explanation.
Data Source
AI summary
An information processing system to conduct a questionnaire for conference participants while a conference with multiple terminal devices is ongoing, the information processing system including processing circuitry configured to cause a first device among the multiple devices to display a screen to create and edit a questionnaire content; register information including the questionnaire content created or edited via the screen in association with the conference; in response to a starting request of questionnaire by a user at the first terminal device, cause one or more second devices among the multiple terminal devices to display a screen to receive an answer to the questionnaire, the screen including the questionnaire content created or edited; and control the first device to prohibit the user to edit the questionnaire content in a case that the questionnaire is being conducted during the conference.