Remote Video Conferencing Control via Software Endpoint
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional video conferencing systems face challenges in managing resources across different locations and devices, particularly in office environments where multiple users share endpoints, leading to forgotten settings and cumbersome URI entry using numerical keyboards.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that allows remote control of video conferencing devices via a computer device connected to a video conferencing management server, enabling direct communication and control using a remote control application, which simplifies the process by utilizing a computer keyboard for URI entry and managing device connections within a local area network.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If multiple users share access to video conferencing endpoints in meeting rooms, then resource utilization is improved, but device complexity and operational difficulty increase due to forgotten settings and personal information being erased
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a virtual copy of the video conferencing endpoint that resides on the user's computer. This software endpoint replicates the functionality of the physical device, allowing users to access and control video conferencing features from their personal computers without directly interacting with the shared physical endpoint, thereby eliminating settings loss and operational difficulties.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a software intermediary layer between the user and the shared video conferencing endpoint. This software endpoint acts as a mediator that manages connections to the physical device, preserves user-specific settings locally, and simplifies the interaction model by providing a familiar computer-based interface instead of requiring direct manipulation of the shared endpoint.
2Device complexity
If numerical keyboards are used for URI entry in video conferencing devices, then device simplicity is maintained, but ease of operation deteriorates due to cumbersome multi-tap text entry
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the mechanical numerical keyboard interface with a software-based virtual keyboard running on the user's computer. This substitution allows for full QWERTY keyboard input, enabling direct typing of URIs and email addresses without the cumbersome multi-tap process required by numerical keyboards, while the physical device itself remains unchanged.
3Ease of operation
If conventional remote control systems are used to control video conferencing devices, then ease of operation is improved, but device complexity increases due to firewall communication and proxy requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the video conferencing control functionality directly into the user's computer operating system through a software endpoint. By combining the endpoint functions with the existing computer infrastructure and communication capabilities, the system eliminates the need for separate remote control applications, firewall proxies, and complex communication protocols, thereby reducing overall system complexity while maintaining remote control ease of use.
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AI summary
A method, system, and computer-readable storage medium for remotely controlling a video conferencing device registered with a video conferencing management server. The method includes establishing a connection to the video conferencing management server via a local access network (LAN), receiving a list of video conferencing devices registered with the video conferencing management server, selecting a video conferencing device from the list of video conferencing devices registered with the video conferencing management server, downloading a remote control application from the video conferencing management server, receiving registration information for the selected video conferencing device from the video conferencing management server, the registration information including at least an internal LAN address of the selected video conferencing device, establishing, using the registration information, a connection directly with the selected video conferencing device, and controlling the selected video conferencing device using the remote control application.