Sub-Meeting Waiting Queue Notifications for Videoconference Hosts
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Solution Overview
Problem
In videoconferencing systems, hosts in sub-meetings often miss notifications from waiting queues due to the independent operation of main and sub-meetings, requiring frequent returns to manage participant admissions, which is inefficient and burdensome.
Innovation Solution
A videoconferencing system maintains stored connections for hosts, allowing them to receive waiting queue notifications and manage participant admissions from sub-meetings, ensuring continuity of control inputs.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the host moves to a sub-meeting, then the host can participate in smaller group discussions, but the host cannot receive waiting queue notifications from the main meeting
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges the notification delivery mechanism with the host's sub-meeting context by routing waiting queue notifications directly to the host's client device even when the host is physically present in a sub-meeting. This combines the main meeting's waiting queue management function with the host's current sub-meeting participation, allowing the host to receive and respond to notifications without leaving the sub-meeting interface.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces an intermediary notification routing mechanism that acts as a mediator between the waiting queue system and the host. This intermediary component captures notifications intended for the host and delivers them through the host's current interface context, whether the host is in the main meeting or a sub-meeting, thus bridging the gap between separate meeting contexts.
2Ease of operation
If the host returns to the main meeting to manage waiting queue, then the host can admit participants, but the host must interrupt sub-meeting participation frequently
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary action by proactively delivering waiting queue notifications to the host's client device before the host would need to manually check or return to the main meeting. This advance notification mechanism allows the host to manage participant admissions at convenient times without frequent interruptions to sub-meeting participation.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables self-service by allowing the host to manage waiting queue admissions from within the sub-meeting context. The host can receive notifications and perform admission actions through the same interface used for sub-meeting participation, eliminating the need to switch contexts and making the management process self-contained within the host's current workflow.
3Device complexity
If waiting queue notifications are only delivered in the main meeting, then the notification system is simple, but the host management efficiency is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The notification system achieves universality by delivering waiting queue notifications through a single unified channel that works regardless of the host's current meeting context. The same notification infrastructure serves both main meeting and sub-meeting scenarios, allowing the system to maintain relative simplicity while expanding functionality to support host participation in multiple meeting types simultaneously.
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AI summary
One example system for providing notifications to videoconferencing sub-meetings includes a processor and at least one memory device. The processor establishes a videoconferencing session associated with a host. The videoconferencing session can include a main meeting, a sub-meeting, and a waiting queue. The processor can move the host from the main meeting to the sub-meeting, and subsequently move a new participant into the waiting queue. The processor can generate a notification that the participant has entered the waiting queue and determine that the host has moved to the sub-meeting. The processor can route, to the host in the sub-meeting using a stored connection of the host to the main meeting, a notification of the participant entering the waiting queue, and subsequently allow the host to admit the new participant.