Live Meeting Screen Data Navigation via Thumbnail Capture

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing technologies for online meetings do not effectively allow viewers to pause, rewind, or navigate through live online meetings, leading to missed content due to interruptions or the need for further review of presented data.

Innovation Solution

Implementing a system that captures and stores screen data during live online meetings, enabling viewers to pause and rewind the meeting while it is ongoing, using image thumbnails for navigation, and allowing annotation of key screenshots for summarization.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If viewers must be present for the entirety of a live online meeting to avoid missing content, then complete content coverage is achieved, but flexibility and accessibility deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent coverageVSAvoidviewing flexibility

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by continuously capturing and storing screen data and generating key screenshots during the live meeting before the viewer needs to review content. This allows viewers to access previously presented content on-demand without having been present live, resolving the contradiction between complete content coverage and viewing flexibility.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system creates visual copies (key screenshots and thumbnails) of the presented content that can be stored and replayed. These copies enable viewers to review meeting content at their convenience without needing to attend the live meeting, maintaining content accessibility while improving viewing flexibility.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #26Copying

2Loss of information

If viewers interrupt the meeting to review previously presented content, then understanding is improved, but meeting flow and productivity deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent understandingVSAvoidmeeting flow

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system introduces an intermediary mechanism (thumbnail navigation interface) that allows viewers to access and review previously presented content without interrupting the live meeting flow. Viewers can navigate through key screenshots and replay content at their own pace while the meeting continues, thus improving content understanding without disrupting meeting productivity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Measurement precision

If key screenshots are captured frequently to improve navigation, then navigation precision is improved, but system resource consumption deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvenavigation precisionVSAvoidsystem resource consumption

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies local quality by capturing key screenshots selectively at meaningful transition points (such as when slides change or significant content is presented) rather than uniformly at fixed intervals. This approach provides sufficient navigation precision for viewers to locate content while minimizing unnecessary captures that would consume system resources.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS9269072B2Systems, methods, and devices for facilitating navigation of previously presented screen data in an ongoing online meeting

Publication Date: 2016.02.23 GOTO GRP INC

AI summary

In various embodiments, an attendee of a live online meeting selects screen data from an earlier point in time in the online meeting for playback while the meeting is still ongoing. Automatically generated image thumbnails of the screen data for the online meeting may be employed to navigate to the earlier point in time. Attendees may annotate screenshots associated with the thumbnails, and a summary document may be generated that includes the screenshots and the annotations.