Location Enhanced Meeting Service Server Architecture
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional mobile devices struggle to maintain location information about other users, limiting their ability to enhance enterprise services and productivity by not being able to easily share or utilize location data of multiple users effectively.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that utilize location information to provide location-enhanced meeting services by determining and sharing the locations of users and attendees, generating meeting maps, and estimating arrival times, allowing users to view meeting locations and attendee locations on a geographical map.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If mobile devices use only their own location information, then device complexity is reduced, but productivity and service enhancement are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a server as an intermediary component that collects location information from multiple mobile devices and provides enhanced meeting services. The server acts as a mediator between devices, maintaining location data of multiple users and enabling collaboration features without requiring each device to independently manage complex location tracking. This resolves the contradiction by centralizing complexity in the server while keeping individual devices simple.
Solution Approach 2:
The server implements multi-functionality by handling multiple tasks: collecting location data from various devices, maintaining location information of multiple users, determining meeting locations, calculating arrival times, and providing enhanced meeting services. This universal approach allows a single system to serve multiple purposes, improving productivity across different scenarios without requiring each device to have specialized complex functionality.
2Adaptability or versatility
If mobile devices maintain location information about other users, then service enhancement is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The server serves as an intermediary that maintains location information about multiple users and devices. Instead of each mobile device independently tracking and storing location data of other users (which would increase device complexity), the server centrally manages this information, enabling enhanced services like meeting coordination and arrival time estimation while keeping individual devices simple.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses location information from mobile devices as input data, processes it through the server, and generates derived information (such as meeting maps and arrival times) that enhances service capabilities. The server creates a virtual representation or copy of the location data ecosystem, allowing service enhancement without requiring devices to maintain complex internal state about other users' locations.
3Reliability
If location information of multiple users is collected and processed, then meeting service quality is improved, but processing time and computational resources increase
Solution Approach 1:
The server continuously collects and maintains location information from multiple mobile devices in advance, so that when meeting services are needed, the location data is already ready for processing. This preliminary action reduces processing time during actual meeting coordination tasks, as the server doesn't need to collect location data from scratch but can work with pre-gathered information.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where location information is continuously updated and fed back into the server's database. The server processes this feedback data to maintain current location maps and arrival time estimates, enabling real-time meeting service quality improvement without requiring reprocessing of historical data, thus optimizing processing time.
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AI summary
A location enhanced meeting service (“LEM Service”) may provide a geographical based map indicating meeting locations for a selected day. The user can view locations of meetings for a scheduled day, along with travel times. Conditions impacting travel time may be provided to the user along with updated estimated travel times and suggested alternative routes. The scale of the map may be based on the geographical diversity of the attendees. A user can view a location enhanced meeting map for particular meeting, and obtain directions to the meeting. The user can also request to view attendee's locations to the meeting on the map prior to the meeting. If an attendee is expected to be late, the user may establish a voice conference with that attendee. If a user is expected to be late to a meeting, the user may provide a notification to the other attendees of the meeting.