Live Session Participant Selection Using Rules and Dynamic Lists
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional conferencing systems lack the technical capability to enable dynamic participant selection in a group video conference, leading to issues such as biased, non-random, repetitive, and disruptive manual selection processes.
Innovation Solution
A conferencing system that allows for automated participant selection using predefined rules and lists, with features like random selection, least-talkative first, and dynamic list management through set theory operations, minimizing host intervention.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If manual participant selection is used, then the host has control over the selection process, but the selection becomes biased, repetitive, and disruptive
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables participants to automatically raise their hands by activating a feature on their own client devices, eliminating the need for manual host selection. The conferencing system then automatically processes these raised hands and selects participants based on predefined rules, allowing the system to serve itself rather than requiring continuous host intervention.
Solution Approach 2:
The host pre-configures selection rules and participant lists before the live session begins. These rules (e.g., random selection, least-talkative first, most-talkative first) are established in advance, allowing the system to automatically and fairly select participants during the session without biased manual intervention.
2Reliability
If automated participant selection is implemented, then selection fairness and efficiency improve, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system manages complexity by allowing the host to configure selection parameters (rules and lists) before the session. During the live session, the system simply applies these pre-set parameters automatically, transforming a potentially complex real-time decision-making process into a straightforward parameter-application process that maintains fairness without ongoing complexity.
3Adaptability or versatility
If dynamic list management with set theory operations is added, then participant selection versatility improves, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The host performs all list management operations (creating, modifying, combining lists using set theory operations) before the live session. The conferencing system stores these pre-configured lists and rules, then automatically applies them during the session. This separates the complex list management task from the live session execution, providing versatility without real-time complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
Dynamic selection of participants in video conference where a host of a live session can select a list of participants and a rule for selecting participants therefrom, causing video conferencing services to iteratively apply the rule to the list to select participants for active engagement in the live session. The host can select multiple lists to generate combined lists using set operators such as union, intersection, and difference. The host can modify parameters of parameterized rules. A console may be presented by a user interface of a client device of the host, where the host can select and combine lists, and select and modify rules. The console may present a queue of selected participants.