Screen Image Tile Transmission for Browser-Based Meetings
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional electronic meeting technologies require attendees to install proprietary software, leading to software incompatibilities and difficulties in presenting information on various devices without advance preparation.
Innovation Solution
A system that broadcasts a host device's screen image to remote viewers through a standard web browser, dividing the image into tiles and transmitting only changed tiles, allowing for real-time viewing without software download, and providing features like password protection and control sharing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If proprietary software is installed on attendee devices, then electronic meeting functionality is enabled, but software incompatibilities and installation difficulties arise
Solution Approach 1:
A server acts as an intermediary between the host and remote attendees. The host's screen is captured and transmitted to the server, which then relays it to attendees via their web browsers. This eliminates the need for attendees to install proprietary software while maintaining reliable meeting functionality through the mediating server infrastructure.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of requiring attendees to run the host's application locally, the system creates a visual copy of the host's screen and transmits it to attendees. The attendee experiences the meeting through a replicated visual interface delivered via web browser, eliminating installation requirements while preserving functionality.
2Loss of information
If full screen images are transmitted to remote devices, then complete visual information is provided, but bandwidth requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The screen image is divided into multiple tiles or segments. Only the tiles that have changed since the previous frame are captured and transmitted to the server and then to attendees. This segmentation allows complete visual information to be conveyed when changes occur, while significantly reducing bandwidth consumption during static periods when no tiles need updating.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of continuous transmission of the entire screen, the system periodically checks for changes in each tile and only transmits updated tiles when changes are detected. This periodic update mechanism maintains visual information completeness while optimizing bandwidth usage by transmitting data only when necessary.
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AI summary
A system and method are provided for conducting an electronic meeting by broadcasting a screen image to a third party computing device (desktop, laptop, tablet or smartphone) without requiring the attendee to download specialized software. The image is viewed through a standard web browser. In operation, a user is provided with a hosting account on a server, and a host computing device is loaded with a software application for communicating with the server. The user invites one or more remote viewers who connect to the server using the browser on their device. The hosting application captures image frames to be shared and divides them into subsections, transmitting to the server only those sections that have changed relative to the previously transmitted frame. The meeting attendee's browser retrieves tiles from the server as they change, and displays them for the attendee.