Dynamic UI Focus for Communication Sessions

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional communication systems face inefficiencies in identifying and displaying activity relevant to users in large-scale communication sessions, expending significant resources to analyze and display video feeds, which can lead to increased memory, processing, and network resource usage.

Innovation Solution

A system that allows users to designate specific attendees whose activity is of greater interest, focusing on monitoring and accentuating video feeds of these individuals, thereby reducing the need to analyze all video feeds and conserving system resources.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If conventional communication systems monitor and analyze all video feeds in large-scale communication sessions, then complete coverage of all participant activity is achieved, but system resource consumption (memory, processing, network) increases significantly

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveactivity detection coverageVSAvoidsystem resource consumption

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the set of all video feeds into two categories: feeds from designated attendees (monitored in detail) and feeds from non-designated attendees (monitored selectively). This segmentation allows the system to focus computational resources on specific segments that are more likely to contain relevant activity, thereby reducing overall resource consumption while maintaining effective activity detection coverage.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent applies local quality by differentiating the monitoring intensity applied to different video feeds based on the attendee's designated status. Video feeds from designated attendees receive higher-quality, more resource-intensive analysis to detect all relevant activity, while feeds from non-designated attendees receive lower-quality, less resource-intensive monitoring. This localized differentiation optimizes the balance between detection coverage and resource usage.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

2Loss of information

If conventional communication systems display all detected activity from all participants, then comprehensive information is provided to users, but user attention is diluted and productivity decreases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveactivity information completenessVSAvoiduser interaction efficiency

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts and prioritizes activity information from designated attendees for prominent display in the user interface. By taking out the most relevant activity (from designated attendees) and presenting it separately and prominently, the system maintains comprehensive information about important activity while preventing user attention from being diluted by less relevant activity from non-designated attendees.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent applies partial action by selectively displaying activity from only certain attendees (designated ones) in the primary view, rather than displaying all activity equally. This partial display approach provides sufficient information for users to stay engaged and productive without the excessive information overload that would result from displaying all participant activity simultaneously.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #16Partial or excessive action

3Measurement precision

If conventional communication systems analyze a large number of video feeds to identify relevant activity, then thorough activity identification is achieved, but processing time and computational resources are excessively consumed

Engineering Contradiction:

Improverelevant activity identification accuracyVSAvoidprocessing time

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent performs preliminary action by pre-designating certain attendees as relevant to the communication session's purpose. This preliminary classification allows the system to pre-determine which video feeds require thorough analysis for relevant activity identification. By performing this designation action beforehand, the system avoids the time-consuming process of analyzing all video feeds in real-time while maintaining accurate identification of relevant activity from the designated attendees.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS10951947B2Dynamic configuration of a user interface for bringing focus to target events

Publication Date: 2021.03.16 MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC

AI summary

The disclosed system implements techniques to identify activity in which attendees to a communication session likely have a greater interest. Prior to commencement of a communication session or during the communication session, the techniques enable a list of attendees to a communication session to be designated as a group for which detected activity has a priority with respect to being displayed. The designated list of attendees is a subset of a total number of attendees to the communication session. The system monitors streams associated with individual attendees on the list to detect an occurrence of a preset target event. The system configures a portion of a graphical user interface of the communication session to accentuate the stream that includes the occurrence of the preset target event.