Meeting System Automating Material Display via Card Authentication

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional meeting systems require presenters to manually operate and switch materials on a monitor, complicating the meeting process with multiple user operations.

Innovation Solution

An information processing system that acquires user identification information, authenticates users, and executes predefined commands associated with their identification, simplifying user operations by automating the display and control of meeting materials.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If materials are displayed manually on a monitor during meetings, then the presenter can control the display content, but the operation complexity increases and user effort is required

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser operation simplicityVSAvoidoperation complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables self-service operation where meeting materials are automatically displayed on monitors based on authentication results. When a participant is authenticated, the system automatically executes commands to display the appropriate material without requiring manual presenter intervention. This eliminates the need for presenters to manually operate the monitor, reducing user effort while maintaining display control functionality

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-configuring command associations with identification information. Commands for displaying specific materials are prepared in advance and linked to participant identification. During the meeting, once authentication occurs, the corresponding pre-prepared command is automatically executed, eliminating the need for real-time manual material switching operations

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Productivity

If manual material switching is performed during meetings, then presenters can update content dynamically, but time is lost due to repeated operations

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemeeting efficiencyVSAvoidtime for material switching
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs automatic material switching through self-service operation. When participant authentication is completed, the system automatically executes the associated display command without requiring presenter intervention. This eliminates the time presenters would spend manually switching materials, allowing dynamic content updates to occur automatically based on authentication events

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements feedback mechanisms where authentication results trigger automatic command execution. The authentication outcome serves as feedback that automatically initiates the material display process, creating a closed-loop system where the presenter's authentication action directly results in the corresponding material being displayed without intermediate manual steps

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Reliability

If authentication is performed before command execution, then security is enhanced, but the system requires additional processing steps

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveauthentication securityVSAvoidsystem process complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system merges the authentication process with the command execution process into a unified workflow. Authentication and command execution are combined in sequence where authentication results directly determine command execution. This integration maintains security requirements while presenting a streamlined process to users, as the authentication and subsequent material display occur as a connected automated sequence rather than separate manual steps

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS11403385B2Information processing system and information processing method
Publication Date: 2022.08.02 SHARP KK
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AI summary

A meeting system includes an identification information acquirer that acquires a card ID, based on a user's operation of touching a reader with an ID card 5 for identifying the user, an authentication process operator that determines whether or not to grant an authentication of the user, based on the card ID acquired by the identification information acquirer, and a command process operator that issues a command for commanding an operation corresponding to a desired operation of the user, where the command is associated with the card ID corresponding to the user, if the authentication of the user is granted by the authentication process operator.