Integrated Room Booking with Token Authentication
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional meeting room reservation systems fail to integrate the booking of meeting rooms with conference media resources, leading to inefficiencies such as manual selection of casting devices and potential unauthorized access or misuse of display devices.
Innovation Solution
A booking system that manages both meeting rooms and conference media resources, allowing organizers to reserve both resources simultaneously, with authentication and permission policies to ensure authorized access and usage, using tokens and challenge-response authentication to secure access to display devices.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If manual selection of casting devices is used, then device complexity is reduced, but ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the meeting room reservation system with the casting device selection system into a single integrated platform. When a user reserves a meeting room, the system automatically provides access to the casting devices associated with that room, eliminating the need for separate manual selection processes and reducing operational complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables automatic assignment of casting devices based on the meeting room reservation. The casting device selection is performed automatically by the system without requiring manual intervention from the user, making the process more convenient while managing complexity through automated workflows.
2Reliability
If authentication and permission policies are implemented, then reliability is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements authentication and permission policies in advance, before users access the casting devices. By pre-configuring access controls and verifying user credentials before device access is granted, the system ensures reliability and security while minimizing the impact on user convenience during the actual meeting.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary authentication mechanism that mediates between users and casting devices. The system acts as a intermediary layer that verifies permissions and grants access appropriately, ensuring security while maintaining ease of operation for authorized users through automated authentication workflows.
3Productivity
If integrated booking of meeting rooms and conference media resources is implemented, then productivity is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the meeting room reservation functionality with the conference media resource booking system into a single integrated platform. Users can reserve both the meeting room and associated casting devices simultaneously through one booking process, improving productivity by eliminating the need for separate booking operations.
Solution Approach 2:
The system is designed as a universal platform that handles multiple functions: meeting room reservation, casting device selection, authentication, and permission management. This multi-functional approach improves productivity by consolidating what would otherwise require multiple separate systems into a single unified solution.
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AI summary
Techniques are disclosed for integrated booking of rooms and media resources, such as display devices. An example methodology implementing the techniques includes responsive to an activation of an access Uniform Resource Locator (URL) on a computing device, receiving information associated with a booking of a room and a display device, generating a token for accessing the display device and providing to the computing device the token and an address of the display device. The method also includes, responsive to receiving the token from the display device, authenticating the token and, responsive to authenticating the token, allowing use of the display device.