Interactive Timeline for Teleconference Supplemental Content Injection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users of teleconference systems often miss live sessions due to scheduling conflicts or time zone differences, making it difficult to contribute to or review previous sessions, as they typically need to navigate through full recordings to find relevant content.
Innovation Solution
A system that allows users to add supplemental recorded content, such as video or audio, to an interactive timeline of a teleconference session, enabling users to contribute and notify others even after the live session has ended, with options to inject or append this content for optional viewing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If users navigate through full recordings to find relevant content, then they can review what occurred in the teleconference session, but it consumes excessive time and effort
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the continuous teleconference recording into discrete, meaningful segments based on detected events (e.g., presentations, discussions, Q&A sessions). Each segment is marked with metadata and can be independently accessed, allowing users to jump directly to relevant portions without navigating the entire recording.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary layer between the full recording and the user - an event detection and segmentation system that analyzes the recording, identifies key events, and creates an indexed structure. This intermediary enables efficient content retrieval without requiring users to manually search through the entire recording.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the teleconference session has already ended, then live participants can no longer contribute, but users who missed the session should still be able to participate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent enables users who missed the live session to record their responses and comments in advance, which are then integrated into the session recording at appropriate locations. This preliminary action allows asynchronous participants to contribute their thoughts as if they had been present live, maintaining session integrity while enabling flexible participation.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a virtual copy of the live session environment where asynchronous participants can view the recorded session and add their contributions. This copying approach preserves the original session content while allowing new content to be added, maintaining the authenticity of the original session while enabling post-session participation.
3Adaptability or versatility
If supplemental content is added to the teleconference recording, then users can contribute after the session, but it may disrupt the user experience
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by inserting supplemental content at specific, contextually appropriate locations within the recording rather than uniformly throughout. Each supplemental contribution is placed where it is most relevant to the ongoing discussion, maintaining the natural flow and continuity of the original session while enabling post-session participation.
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AI summary
Described herein is a system that generates and displays an interactive timeline for a teleconference session, where the interactive timeline includes a representation of supplemental recorded content that has been added after a live viewing of the teleconference session has ended. The system can inject the supplemental recorded content into previously recorded content or append the supplemental recorded content to the interactive timeline. Moreover, the system can cause the supplemental recorded content to subsequently be displayed in one of multiple different views. Furthermore, the system can generate and/or distribute a notification of the supplemental recorded content so that participants to the teleconference session can be made aware of additional activity contributed to the teleconference session (e.g., by someone who missed the live viewing of the teleconference session).