Meeting Continuity Without Interruption
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current online meeting systems require hosts to end and restart meetings to continue discussions with a subset of attendees, leading to loss of context information, security issues, and inefficiencies such as re-inviting attendees and reconnecting to servers, which is inconvenient and wasteful.
Innovation Solution
A method that allows a meeting host to renew an in-process meeting without disconnecting attendees, maintaining context information, and creating a new recording file to ensure security, by updating meeting settings and passwords within the existing meeting framework.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the host ends and restarts the meeting to continue discussions with a subset of attendees, then security is improved and context information is cleared, but meeting continuity is interrupted and time is wasted
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the meeting participant group into different roles (original attendees vs. new attendees) while maintaining a single continuous meeting instance. This allows the host to control access and security settings for different participant groups without interrupting the meeting flow, resolving the contradiction between security and continuity.
Solution Approach 2:
The host performs preliminary actions by scheduling the continuation meeting in advance and setting up security parameters before the original meeting ends. This allows seamless transition and continuity while maintaining security controls, eliminating the need for abrupt interruptions.
2Reliability
If the host ends and restarts the meeting, then new security parameters can be applied, but context information from the original meeting is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the original meeting and continuation meeting into a single unified meeting instance. This allows context information to be preserved and carried forward while enabling the host to apply new security parameters and control settings for the continuation portion, resolving the contradiction between security control and information preservation.
3Reliability
If the host creates a new meeting for subset attendees, then security is enhanced, but device complexity and reconnection requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent makes the single meeting instance universal by allowing it to serve multiple functions: accommodating both original and new attendees, applying different security parameters for different participant groups, and maintaining continuous context. This eliminates the need for separate meeting instances and complex reconnection processes.
4Reliability
If the host schedules a new meeting to continue discussions, then security is improved, but productivity decreases due to rescheduling requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The host performs preliminary scheduling actions for the meeting continuation in advance, setting up all necessary parameters, security settings, and participant invitations before the original meeting concludes. This allows the continuation to begin seamlessly without rescheduling delays, maintaining both security and productivity.
Data Source
AI summary
A method is provided in one example and includes establishing a connection with each of a first set of endpoints associated with meeting attendees, and establishing a first online meeting between the first set of endpoints associated with meeting attendees in which the first online meeting has a meeting identifier associated therewith. The method further includes receiving first context information associated with the first online meeting from at least one of the first set of endpoints associated with meeting attendees, and establishing a second online meeting between a second set of endpoints associated with meeting attendees without disconnecting at least one of the first set of endpoints associated with meeting attendees in which the second online meeting has the same meeting identifier as the first online meeting associated therewith. The method still further includes maintaining the first context information within the second online meeting.