Dynamic Media Selection for Conference Establishment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing enterprise applications face challenges in establishing conferences across multiple participants with diverse communication protocols and media types, leading to failed communications due to incompatible media and unavailability of necessary infrastructure or artifacts.
Innovation Solution
A communication application development and execution platform that dynamically evaluates the presence and preferences of invitees to select the most suitable media type for a conference, ensuring it supports the required features like document sharing and video links, thereby increasing the likelihood of successful conference establishment.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a static media type is determined for a conference, then the conference establishment process is simple, but the communication may fail due to incompatible media or unavailability of necessary infrastructure
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic media type determination by evaluating invitee presence information and device capabilities at runtime. The system selects the most appropriate media type (voice, video, instant messaging, etc.) based on current conditions rather than using a static predetermined type, thereby resolving the contradiction between reliability and complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a conference server as an intermediary that mediates between invitees with different media capabilities. The server evaluates presence information, determines compatible media types, and coordinates the conference establishment, thereby improving success rate while managing complexity centrally rather than at each endpoint
2Adaptability or versatility
If developers integrate with multiple communication servers to support diverse protocols and media types, then communication versatility is improved, but development complexity and time increase substantially
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal conference server that handles multiple communication protocols and media types through a single integration point. The server provides multi-functional capabilities including voice conferencing, video conferencing, instant messaging, and email integration, thereby achieving versatility without requiring separate integrations for each protocol
Solution Approach 2:
The conference server acts as an intermediary layer between enterprise applications and diverse communication infrastructures. It abstracts the complexity of multiple protocols and media types behind a unified interface, allowing developers to integrate once while supporting numerous communication methods
3Reliability
If a conference is established without evaluating invitee presence, then the establishment process is faster, but the conference may fail due to unavailable participants or inappropriate media selection
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary evaluation of invitee presence information and device capabilities before establishing the conference. By checking availability and determining appropriate media types in advance, the system ensures conference success while minimizing delays through efficient pre-assessment rather than trial-and-error establishment
Data Source
AI summary
Methods and apparatus are provided for establishing a conference based on the presence or preferences (or both) of one or more invitees. The presence of each invitee is evaluated on one or more devices. A media type is selected based on the presence information. User preference information may be evaluated for those invitees who are not currently present on a device. The selected media type for the conference may optionally be required to support the requirements of the conference, such as document sharing or video links. In this manner, the same communication application can trigger conferences of different media types (where the selected media type is most likely to lead to the successful establishment of the conference). In addition, the present invention allows a media type to be selected that will be more likely to lead to the successful establishment of a conference.