Standby Layout Buffer for Seamless Online Meeting Transitions
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Solution Overview
Problem
Online video meetings experience delays when hosts switch content or topics, as attendees see avatars or empty spaces before new video feeds appear, and hosts face challenges in quickly preparing new stage layouts, disrupting the meeting flow.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a standby stage layout that hosts can prepare and populate with video streams and content in parallel to the current stage, allowing seamless switching by broadcasting the standby layout as the new current layout when synchronized.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of time
If the host prepares a new stage layout by clearing the current layout and adding new content, then the new content can be presented, but there is a delay between synchronization and when participants see the content
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-loads content into a standby layout buffer before the host actually switches to it. This allows content to be ready and waiting, eliminating the delay between synchronization and participant display. The standby layout acts as a pre-prepared stage that can be instantly activated without clearing and repopulating during the meeting.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the host clears the current stage layout to prepare a new layout, then new content can be added, but the meeting flow is disrupted
Solution Approach 1:
The host can prepare the standby layout in advance with all necessary content, video feeds, and arrangements before the topic switch is needed. This pre-preparation eliminates the need to clear and rebuild the layout during the meeting, allowing instant switching while maintaining meeting flow.
Solution Approach 2:
The standby layout serves as a copy or template of the current layout, pre-configured with new content. Instead of creating a new layout from scratch, the system uses a pre-made copy that can be instantly deployed, reducing preparation time while maintaining adaptability.
3Reliability
If the host synchronizes the stage layout with participants, then participants see the content, but there is a delay before new video feeds appear
Solution Approach 1:
Video feeds and content are pre-loaded into the standby layout buffer before synchronization. When the host switches layouts, participants immediately see the pre-loaded content without delay, while maintaining reliable content delivery through the buffered approach.
Data Source
AI summary
A selection to activate a standby layout during the online meeting is received from a user device associated with a host of an online meeting. The online meeting including the host and one or more participants. The standby layout is provided for display on the user device associated with the host. The standby layout is populated with standby content based on selections from the host and one or more content streams associated with the standby content are transmitted to the host and the one or more participants. A selection is received from the host to synchronize the standby layout as a current layout for the online meeting for the one or more participants and the standby layout is broadcast to the one or more participants for display as the current layout for the online meeting in response to receiving the selection.