Coviewing System Integrating Phone Calls With Video Content
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current telecommunications and multimedia systems fail to integrate provider video content with phone call communications in real time, preventing users from engaging in synchronized video content viewing and phone calls across remote locations.
Innovation Solution
A coviewing system that integrates phone call communications with provider video content viewing sessions using a coviewing control system and user interfaces with audio and video inputs/outputs, enabling simultaneous phone calls and video content viewing, with optional smart echo cancellation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If phone call communications and provider video content remain as separate services, then system simplicity is maintained, but user functionality and integration capability deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines phone call communications and provider video content into a single integrated coviewing service. The system merges audio from phone calls with video content playback, allowing users to simultaneously engage in voice communications and watch video content through a unified interface that synchronizes both services.
Solution Approach 2:
The coviewing system is designed to perform multiple functions simultaneously: it handles phone call audio processing, video content playback, echo cancellation for both services, and synchronized presentation. This multi-functional approach allows a single system to replace what would traditionally require separate services.
2Reliability
If echo cancellation is applied to phone calls only, then call quality is improved, but video content audio quality deteriorates due to lack of integrated processing
Solution Approach 1:
The echo canceller is designed to handle multiple audio sources simultaneously - both phone call audio and video content audio. This multi-functional echo cancellation system processes all audio streams through a unified algorithm, ensuring high-quality audio output for both services while maintaining the ability to distinguish and cancel echoes from different sources.
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AI summary
A method, apparatus, and system to provide the ability for a user to make audio and/or audio-video phone calls simultaneously while watching (co-viewing) provider video content in remote locations. A control system is provided to set up call, direct provider video content, and provide for the phone calls and video content to be delivered and then synchronized. The phone calls may be routed by the control system to PSTN destinations or Internet based destinations and calls made or received may be bridged to other Internet based sources. The provider video content may be provided directly from its source or routed through NAT traversal or through the control system.