Online Meeting Content Sharing Queue for Seamless Screen Switching
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing online meeting systems allow only one participant to share a screen at a time, requiring repetitive screen-sharing operations among multiple participants, leading to complex and time-consuming switching processes that reduce content sharing efficiency.
Innovation Solution
A method and apparatus that enables a waiting space for designated meeting members to share content, allowing seamless switching by a host terminal activation, simplifying the sharing process and enhancing efficiency.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If only one participant is allowed to share a screen at a time, then the system maintains simple control and management, but the content sharing efficiency decreases due to repetitive switching operations
Solution Approach 1:
The system allows multiple participants to pre-register their screen sharing requests in advance before actual sharing begins. These requests are stored in a waiting space, and the host can activate them sequentially without requiring participants to repeatedly initiate sharing operations. This preliminary registration action eliminates repetitive switching operations and improves content sharing efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
The screen sharing function is segmented into distinct phases: registration phase (where participants submit sharing requests to a waiting space), activation phase (where the host selects and activates shared screens), and execution phase (where actual sharing occurs). This segmentation allows multiple participants to prepare their content independently while maintaining simple host control during activation.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple participants need to share screens, then content sharing coverage improves, but the switching operation becomes complex and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
A waiting space mechanism is introduced as an intermediary between participants' sharing requests and the host's activation. Participants submit their sharing intentions to this intermediate space, which stores and manages multiple requests. The host then interacts with this intermediate space to activate shared screens, eliminating the need for complex real-time switching operations while supporting multiple participants.
3Quantity of substance
If screen sharing is switched repeatedly among participants, then all participants can present their content, but the time consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system maintains continuous useful action by allowing participants to register their screen sharing requests in advance without interrupting the current sharing session. The waiting space preserves these requests, and the host can activate them continuously without requiring participants to stop or restart their sharing operations, thereby reducing time consumption while enabling multiple participants to share content.
Data Source
AI summary
This application relates to a method for sharing content in an online meeting performed by a server. The method includes: in response to a content sharing request initiated by a meeting member participating in an online meeting, adding the meeting member designated to perform content sharing to a waiting space; forwarding the content sharing request to a host terminal of the meeting wherein the host terminal is configured to determine whether or not to grant the content sharing request; and in response to an activation instruction transmitted by the host terminal, determining, among meeting members in the waiting space, a meeting member indicated by the activation instruction, and transmitting to-be-shared content of the meeting member indicated by the activation instruction to participant terminals used by other meeting members participating in the meeting.