Meeting Token Allocation for Bandwidth Management
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions
Solution Overview
Problem
Online meetings often experience bandwidth shortages due to high demand, leading to reduced quality and increased risks of meeting fatigue and health issues associated with prolonged immobility, especially during peak times when many concurrent meetings occur.
Innovation Solution
A method that utilizes a finite number of 'meeting tokens' to limit the number of concurrent online meetings within an organization, each token specifying a maximum number of participants, ensuring efficient bandwidth usage and preventing bandwidth shortages by allocating tokens through an online event scheduling system.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the number of concurrent online meetings is increased to meet high demand, then user accessibility and meeting availability are improved, but bandwidth shortage and reduced meeting quality occur
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary allocation of meeting tokens before online meetings are scheduled. Organizations are pre-assigned a finite number of tokens based on their bandwidth capacity, and these tokens are reserved in advance for specific time slots, preventing bandwidth overload before it occurs
Solution Approach 2:
Meeting tokens act as an intermediary mechanism between bandwidth resources and meeting requests. The tokens mediate the allocation process by serving as virtual credentials that represent authorized bandwidth usage, allowing the system to control meeting concurrency without direct bandwidth management
2Ease of operation
If unlimited concurrent meetings are allowed, then meeting accessibility is improved, but bandwidth shortage and reduced quality occur
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically checks token availability and performs preliminary allocation before allowing meeting bookings. This preliminary action ensures that only meetings that can be supported by available bandwidth capacity are permitted, maintaining quality while preserving ease of operation for authorized meetings
3Productivity
If more meeting tokens are allocated to increase concurrent meetings, then meeting availability is improved, but bandwidth overload and quality reduction occur
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adjusts the number of meeting tokens allocated to organizations based on their available bandwidth capacity. By changing the token parameter in response to bandwidth conditions, the system optimizes concurrent meeting capacity while preventing overload, allowing higher productivity when bandwidth permits
Data Source
AI summary
The present disclosure relates to a method for avoiding bandwidth shortage for online meetings in a communication network. The method comprises, via an online event scheduling system, receiving a meeting request for an online meeting from an organizer, said request comprising information about a time slot for said online meeting. The method also comprises determining whether an organization which the organizer belongs to has a meeting token available for said time slot and said number of participants. The method also comprises sending an acknowledgement to the event scheduling system, allowing the event scheduling system to book the online meeting for the participants in the event scheduling system. A finite number of meeting tokens has been provided to the organization based on a communication bandwidth available for said organization, such that a maximum number of concurrent online meetings in the organization is limited by the finite number of meeting tokens.