Pause UI Element for Selective Audio Video Pausing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional virtual meeting systems require users to manually mute audio and turn off video separately, which is inefficient and disrupts the user experience due to interruptions, lacking effective privacy features.
Innovation Solution
A system with a cloud server that allows users to selectively pause their audio and video feeds through a pause UI element, enabling concurrent continuation of interactions for other participants without interruptions, improving efficiency and privacy.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Object-affected harmful factors
If users manually mute audio and turn off video separately, then privacy protection is achieved, but operation complexity increases and user experience deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple independent controls (mute button, video off button, status change) into a single integrated pause button that simultaneously performs all these functions. When a user clicks the pause button, it mutes audio, turns off video, and changes status to busy all at once, eliminating the need for separate manual operations while maintaining comprehensive privacy protection.
Solution Approach 2:
The pause button serves multiple functions concurrently: it acts as a mute button for audio, a video off button for camera, and a status indicator for availability. This multi-functional design allows a single UI element to handle what previously required multiple separate controls, significantly simplifying the user interface and interaction flow.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If users manually mute audio and turn off video separately, then privacy protection is achieved, but time consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple time-consuming sequential operations into a single instantaneous action. Instead of requiring users to click mute, then click video off, then change status (three separate actions taking several seconds), the integrated pause button accomplishes all three tasks with a single click, dramatically reducing the time required to protect privacy during interruptions.
3Adaptability or versatility
If conventional virtual meeting systems provide separate controls for audio and video, then system functionality is comprehensive, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The pause button is designed as a universal control that encapsulates multiple specialized functions. Rather than providing separate buttons for muting audio, turning off video, and changing status (increasing UI complexity), the single pause button provides all these capabilities through one interface element, reducing visual clutter and simplifying the user interface while maintaining full system functionality.
4Ease of operation
If users manually manage audio and video separately, then individual control is precise, but user experience deteriorates due to interruptions
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the control of audio and video into a single pause button operation, allowing users to quickly protect their privacy during interruptions without the need for precise manual control of multiple separate settings. This unified approach maintains the ability to control individual streams (as the underlying functionality remains) while eliminating the operational complexity that degrades user experience during time-sensitive situations like interruptions.
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AI summary
A system for controlling user interactions in a virtual meeting includes a cloud server that further includes a processor. The processor controls display of a user interface (UI) that includes a virtual environment to facilitate the virtual meeting among a plurality of participants of the plurality of user devices. The processor receives a first user input corresponding to an activation of a pause UI element to control the first set of device functions that includes pausing outgoing audio as well as an outgoing video feed concomitantly from the first user device. The processor further causes the other user devices to interact in the virtual environment while the outgoing audio and the outgoing video feed from the first user device are selectively paused. Beneficially, the system improves the efficiency, the performance as well as the overall user experience of the virtual environment.