Parallel Meeting Management for Simultaneous Audio Streams
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Solution Overview
Problem
In conventional network-based group meetings, users can only attend either a general meeting or an individual meeting, making it inconvenient to listen to a presentation while conversing with others.
Innovation Solution
A meeting management system that allows multiple communication terminals to attend both individual and general meetings simultaneously by associating attendee terminals with selected group meetings and executing parallel voice transmission and reception between terminals and a source terminal.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a communication terminal attends only one meeting at a time, then the system complexity is reduced and meeting management is simplified, but user convenience deteriorates because users cannot listen to general presentations while having conversations with other users
Solution Approach 1:
The meeting system is segmented into different meeting types (general meetings and individual meetings) with distinct functional characteristics. The terminal is divided into multiple functional modules that can independently handle different meeting streams, allowing simultaneous participation in multiple meetings without overwhelming the entire system.
Solution Approach 2:
The communication terminal is designed with multi-functionality to simultaneously support both general meeting participation and individual meeting conversations. The terminal can act as both a general meeting attendee and an individual meeting participant at the same time, enabling users to listen to presentations while engaging in private discussions.
2Ease of operation
If multiple meetings are executed simultaneously, then user convenience is improved by allowing parallel participation in general and individual meetings, but the processing load and system resources increase
Solution Approach 1:
Different processing resources are allocated to different meeting types based on their specific requirements. Individual meetings receive dedicated processing resources for high-quality voice communication, while general meetings utilize shared resources for audio distribution. This localized resource allocation optimizes overall system efficiency while supporting simultaneous meetings.
Solution Approach 2:
The system merges resource management functions by consolidating audio processing, network communication, and meeting control into integrated modules that can serve multiple meeting types simultaneously. Shared resources such as network interfaces and audio processors are combined to handle both general and individual meetings, reducing redundant resource consumption.
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AI summary
A meeting management apparatus managing a plurality of group meetings that each of a plurality of communication terminals can attend, including: an information acquiring part that acquires information in which (i) an individual meeting which is a group meeting selected from among a plurality of group meetings and (ii) a plurality of attendee terminals that are communication terminals attending the individual meeting among the plurality of communication terminals are associated with each other; and a terminal control part that executes, in parallel, the individual meeting for transmitting and receiving voices between the plurality of attendee terminals and a general meeting for transmitting voices from a predetermined source terminal to the plurality of communication terminals.