Meeting Communication System Automating Participant Habit Application

Solution Overview

Problem

Existing electronic communication systems face challenges in providing seamless and efficient collaboration and communication during meetings, particularly in managing user habits and preferences, leading to increased complexity and time consumption in selecting features and entering information.

Innovation Solution

An electronic communication system that determines participant habits and automatically applies them during meetings, using a database to store user identification and habit information, and a monitoring module to compare scheduling and habit information to facilitate seamless connections and content sharing, with features like automatic joining, in-meeting habit application, and post-meeting feedback.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If applications become more complex to provide advanced collaboration capabilities, then functionality and versatility improve, but time consumption and operational complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecollaboration functionalityVSAvoidtime for entering information

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by determining participant habits before the meeting occurs and automatically applying them during the meeting. The monitoring module compares scheduling information with stored habit information to pre-configure meeting parameters, eliminating the need for participants to manually enter information during the meeting.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system enables self-service by automatically determining and applying participant habits without requiring manual user input. The electronic communication system autonomously configures meeting parameters based on stored habit data, allowing the system to serve itself rather than requiring users to manually configure settings.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

2Adaptability or versatility

If applications become more complex to provide advanced collaboration capabilities, then functionality improves, but ease of operation deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecollaboration functionalityVSAvoidease of selecting features

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by determining participant habits before the meeting occurs and automatically applying them during the meeting. The monitoring module compares scheduling information with stored habit information to pre-configure meeting parameters, eliminating the need for participants to manually enter information during the meeting.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system enables self-service by automatically determining and applying participant habits without requiring manual user input. The electronic communication system autonomously configures meeting parameters based on stored habit data, allowing the system to serve itself rather than requiring users to manually configure settings.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

3Productivity

If the system automatically determines and applies participant habits, then meeting efficiency improves, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvemeeting efficiencyVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The electronic communication system performs multiple functions through a unified approach: it monitors scheduling information, compares it with stored habit information, determines participant habits, and automatically applies them during meetings. This multi-functional system handles various meeting configuration tasks through a single integrated process rather than requiring separate complex systems for each function.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS11777755B2Electronic communication methods and systems for collaborating and communicating in meeting environments

Publication Date: 2023.10.03 MITEL CORP

AI summary

A system and method for determining and applying habits during a communication are disclosed. The habits can be used to automatically connect a user to a communication and/or to modify settings for a communication during the communication.