Mesh Connectivity Orchestration for Collaboration Sessions
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current collaboration session management technologies face challenges in providing real-time, dynamic, and secure management of collaboration sessions, especially in co-located environments, with limitations in peer-to-peer connectivity and adaptability to changing participant and connectivity states.
Innovation Solution
A method involving an iterative process where a session initiator collects and transmits local context to a collaboration platform service, receiving a just-in-time configuration policy to adjust session management, enabling dynamic and secure peer-to-peer connectivity and resource distribution across mesh nodes, using out-of-band capabilities for screen casting and content sharing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If traditional collaboration session management is used, then device connectivity is maintained, but real-time adaptability to changing participant and connectivity states is insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements dynamic session management by continuously collecting local context from participants and receiving just-in-time configuration policies from the collaboration platform service. This allows the collaboration session to adapt in real-time to changing participant and connectivity states, resolving the contradiction between maintaining connectivity and achieving real-time adaptability.
Solution Approach 2:
The iterative process of collecting local context, transmitting it to the collaboration platform service, receiving configuration policies, and adjusting session management creates a feedback loop. This enables the system to respond to changing conditions dynamically, improving real-time adaptability while reducing session setup time through automated adjustments.
2Reliability
If manual session management is implemented, then security policies can be enforced, but user experience complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements self-service security management by automatically collecting local context, receiving configuration policies from the collaboration platform service, and adjusting session management without manual intervention. This maintains security compliance while simplifying the user experience, as the automated system handles security adjustments based on real-time context.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary security configuration by receiving just-in-time configuration policies before collaboration sessions begin. This allows security policies to be pre-established and automatically applied, ensuring compliance while reducing the operational burden on users during session management.
3Reliability
If centralized session management is used, then IT compliance is ensured, but peer-to-peer connectivity efficiency is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments session management into two parts: centralized policy management for IT compliance and distributed local context collection for efficient peer-to-peer connectivity. The collaboration platform service provides just-in-time configuration policies that guide local devices in making connectivity decisions, ensuring both IT compliance and connectivity efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
The system applies local quality by allowing each participant device to collect and process its own local context independently while receiving guidance from centralized configuration policies. This enables efficient peer-to-peer connectivity decisions at the local level while maintaining overall IT compliance through centralized policy enforcement.
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AI summary
A method for managing intelligent discovery and mesh connectivity orchestration for collaboration solution sessions. The disclosed method may be information technology decision maker (ITDM) and security compliant while offering a simplified end-user experience to overcome pain points tied to co-located collaboration user experience. The disclosed method may provide time and/or session bound manageability (and security) policies tied to co-located collaboration actions (e.g., hotkey based) and connectivity management. The disclosed method may further offer peer-to-peer (P2P) session management optimization using out-of-band (OOB) capabilities and negotiations for purposes of screen casting, content sharing, etc. The disclosed method moreover initializes mesh connectivity state contingent for P2P sessions, as well as adapts mesh state to real-time changes in participant system and/or connectivity states.