Teleconference Content Sharing via Remote Access Instructions
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional teleconferencing techniques require substantial computing resources for content sharing, leading to reduced presentation quality and exclusion of participants who cannot meet bandwidth and computational demands.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a method to present remotely accessible content directly within a shared content interface, allowing participants to access content from an originating location without streaming video data, thereby reducing computational load and enhancing presentation quality.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If video data streaming is used to present content in teleconference, then content can be shared between participants, but substantial computing resources and bandwidth are required which reduces presentation quality and excludes participants with limited resources
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the content rendering function from the presenting participant's device and relocates it to the teleconference computing system. The presenting participant only needs to provide content and access credentials, while the computing system handles the resource-intensive tasks of accessing remote content, generating software instructions, and distributing them to all participants. This extraction eliminates the need for substantial computational resources and bandwidth at individual participant devices.
Solution Approach 2:
The teleconference computing system acts as an intermediary between the presenting participant and the content. Instead of participants directly accessing content from remote locations, the computing system receives content from the presenter, determines presentability, generates software instructions for accessing content from the originating location, and distributes these instructions to all participants. This intermediary approach centralizes resource management and enables content sharing without requiring substantial local computational resources.
2Ease of operation
If screen sharing is used to present content, then participants can view content on display devices, but the view may be inconsistent across different participant devices and bandwidth constraints limit participation
Solution Approach 1:
The patent fundamentally changes the parameter of content delivery from streaming video data to distributing software instructions. Instead of sending video frames that may vary in quality and consistency across different networks and devices, the system sends executable instructions that can be uniformly rendered. This parameter change ensures consistent view across all participant devices while eliminating bandwidth constraints that would otherwise limit participation.
3Loss of energy
If remote content access is enabled for all participants, then bandwidth efficiency increases, but content security and access control become more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary content presentability determination and generates software instructions with embedded access credentials before content is actually accessed. The computing system determines whether content is presentable based on criteria such as content type and accessibility requirements, and pre-generates the necessary software instructions that include content access credentials. This preliminary action ensures that when content is accessed, security and access control are already established, simplifying the overall mechanism while enabling bandwidth-efficient remote content access for all participants.
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AI summary
Systems and methods of the present disclosure include a method for increasing teleconferencing bandwidth efficiency via presentation of remotely accessible content. The method includes receiving a request to present content to a teleconference from a presenting participant device of the teleconference. The method includes generating a unit of software instructions that is configured to cause a participant device to access the content from an originating location that differs from the presenting participant device, and display the content within a shared content interface of the teleconference configured to display a view of the content that is consistent between each participant device of the teleconference. The method includes providing the unit of software instructions to one or more non-presenting participant devices of the teleconference.