Event Registration System for Participant Selection

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional collaboration tools face difficulties in identifying meeting participants with the necessary knowledge for a meeting, making it challenging for organizers to select suitable participants.

Innovation Solution

An event registration system that includes a user terminal connected to a management system via a network, which displays potential participation candidates based on their organization information, allowing for the identification of individuals with relevant expertise for a specific event.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If conventional collaboration tools are used to search for meeting participants, then basic search functions are available, but the ability to find participants with sufficient knowledge is insufficient

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveprecision of participant selectionVSAvoidcomplexity of participant identification system

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system pre-registers participants and their expertise information in advance through organization information management. This preliminary action allows the system to have participant data ready before meetings are scheduled, enabling precise participant selection without complex real-time analysis

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces an intermediary system that connects organization information management with meeting scheduling. This intermediary component processes and structures organization data to make it searchable and usable for participant selection, resolving the complexity issue

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Productivity

If manual participant selection is performed without systematic tools, then flexibility is maintained, but time consumption increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveefficiency of participant selectionVSAvoidtime for participant identification

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables self-service participant selection by providing automated search and recommendation functions. Organizers can independently find suitable participants using the system's built-in organization information database, eliminating the need for manual coordination and reducing time loss

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system incorporates feedback mechanisms that learn from past meeting participant selections and performance. This feedback loop continuously improves the accuracy of participant recommendations, increasing productivity over time while maintaining quick selection processes

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS11757949B2Event registration system, user terminal, and storage medium

Publication Date: 2023.09.12 RICOH CO LTD

AI summary

An event registration system includes a user terminal; a storage to store organization information on one or more organizations; and circuitry configured to display, on a display, a particular participation candidate of a particular event identified based on an input from the user terminal, and a particular person based on the particular participation candidate and particular organization information of a particular organization to which the particular participation candidate belongs.