Context-Aware Shared Content Distribution in Virtual Meetings

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing Information Handling Systems (IHSs) lack efficient methods to dynamically distribute shared information during collaborative sessions based on user affiliations and activity levels, leading to inconsistent and uncontrolled sharing of content among participants.

Innovation Solution

Implementing a system with sensors and a sensor hub that determines user context through proximity, gaze detection, and spoken participation to detect events triggering the distribution of shared information, ensuring that content is distributed based on user affiliations and activity levels, using a collaboration tool that monitors and classifies information attributes.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If information is distributed to all participants in a collaborative session, then information sharing coverage is improved, but information security and access control deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveinformation sharing coverageVSAvoidinformation security

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by distributing information selectively to different participants based on their specific affiliations, roles, and activity levels. Instead of uniform distribution to all participants, the system tailors information delivery to each user's context, ensuring security while maintaining comprehensive coverage for authorized users.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The system dynamically adjusts information distribution based on real-time monitoring of user activity levels, affiliations, and session context. The distribution strategy changes adaptively during the collaborative session, enhancing security by responding to actual user engagement and authorization status rather than using static distribution rules.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

2Reliability

If information distribution is manually controlled, then information security is improved, but distribution efficiency and automation deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveinformation securityVSAvoiddistribution efficiency

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements feedback mechanisms by continuously monitoring user activity levels, affiliations, and session context, then using this feedback to automatically adjust information distribution decisions. This closed-loop approach maintains security through intelligent decision-making while eliminating manual intervention, thereby improving distribution efficiency.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs self-service by automatically determining which participants should receive information based on their monitored activity and affiliations. The collaborative session host does not need to manually control distribution; the system autonomously manages information flow according to predefined criteria and real-time user context, enhancing both security and efficiency.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

3Measurement precision

If user context monitoring is implemented, then information distribution accuracy is improved, but system complexity and processing requirements deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedistribution accuracyVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system monitors only the essential user context parameters needed for accurate distribution decisions, such as affiliations, activity levels, and session participation. By focusing on partial monitoring of relevant attributes rather than comprehensive user behavior tracking, the system achieves high distribution accuracy while managing complexity through selective data collection.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #16Partial or excessive action

4Adaptability or versatility

If information is distributed based on multiple criteria (affiliations, activity, attributes), then distribution control is improved, but processing time and computational resources deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedistribution controlVSAvoidprocessing time

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-establishing distribution criteria, user affiliation profiles, and activity thresholds before the collaborative session begins. This advance preparation enables rapid real-time distribution decisions during the session, achieving high adaptability and control without incurring excessive processing delays when actual distribution events occur.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS11489892B2Systems and methods for distribution of shared content based on session context

Publication Date: 2022.11.01 DELL PROD LP

AI summary

As part of virtual meetings, information that has been visually presented to the participants may be distributed to all or some of the participants. Embodiments provide capabilities for identifying such shared information to be distributed to virtual meeting participants based on the context in which the information was shared. A user joining a collaborative session via a first IHS (Information Handling System) is detected and affiliations of the user are determined. The display of information to the user via a collaboration tool is detected. Activity by the user is monitored while the shared information is displayed to the user via the collaboration tool. An event is detected that triggers distribution of the displayed information. Whether to distribute the displayed information to the user's IHS is determined based on the user's affiliations, attributes of the information and the monitored activity of the user during the display of the information.