Seamless Meeting Transition via Credential Synchronization
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Solution Overview
Problem
In conferencing scenarios, end users face inefficiencies when transitioning between multiple meetings scheduled consecutively, requiring re-entry of credential information and re-establishment of connections, leading to inconvenience and potential delays.
Innovation Solution
A communication system that evaluates calendar information to enable seamless transition between meetings by maintaining credential information and shared data, allowing participants to move directly from one meeting to another without re-login, using a meeting server and presence server to synchronize user data and preferences.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If credential information is required for each meeting, then security and authentication are maintained, but user convenience and transition efficiency deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary authentication by obtaining credential information from the user during the first meeting and storing it in advance. When transitioning to the second meeting, the pre-stored credentials are automatically utilized, eliminating the need for re-authentication and thereby maintaining security while improving convenience.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates and utilizes a copy of the user's credential information obtained from the first meeting. This copied authentication data is then applied to the second meeting, allowing seamless transition without requiring the user to re-enter credentials, thus preserving security while enhancing ease of operation.
2Reliability
If connection re-establishment is required between meetings, then system security and protocol compliance are maintained, but transition time and user productivity deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The system maintains continuous authentication state by preserving the credential information obtained in the first meeting and carrying it forward to the second meeting. This continuous utilization of authentication data eliminates the need for connection re-establishment, maintaining security while reducing transition time and improving productivity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs the authentication action preliminarily during the first meeting and stores the results. This preliminary authentication enables direct transition to the second meeting without requiring connection re-establishment, thereby maintaining security protocols while minimizing time loss.
3Device complexity
If shared information is not maintained during transition, then system resource management is simplified, but user experience and information continuity deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements a universal shared information space that persists across multiple meetings. The shared information obtained in the first meeting is maintained and made accessible in the second meeting, providing information continuity without significantly increasing system complexity, as the same shared space infrastructure serves both meetings.
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AI summary
A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes evaluating calendar information in order to identify a first meeting involving an end user and a second meeting involving the end user. The meetings are configured to be provided consecutively in relation to each other and during a designated time period in which both meetings begin. The credential information can be used to enable participation in the first meeting by the end user. The method also includes transitioning the end user from the first meeting to the second meeting without requiring additional credential information to enable participation in the second meeting. In other embodiments, the method includes prompting the end user with information about the second meeting before transitioning the end user from the first meeting to the second meeting. In still other embodiments, the method includes maintaining shared information generated in the first meeting such that the shared information is provided to the end user in the second meeting.