Unified Conference Server Managing Multiple Terminals
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing conference services struggle to provide a realistic and concentrated experience for participants, especially when multiple individuals are involved, as separate terminal participation leads to decreased engagement and difficulty in managing multiple speakers simultaneously.
Innovation Solution
A method and apparatus that utilize multiple terminals to enhance conference participation by allowing one terminal to output conference content and another to transmit participation information, enabling seamless communication and prioritization of participant inputs, with the ability to switch roles if one terminal disconnects, ensuring stable content delivery and smooth proceedings.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If participants use separate terminals to join conferences in different spaces, then real-time conference service is enabled, but realistic sensation and concentration deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple terminals into a unified conference system where terminals from different spaces are integrated through a conference server. This allows participants in separate locations to experience a consolidated conference environment, maintaining realistic sensation while enabling real-time participation across different spaces.
Solution Approach 2:
The conference server acts as an intermediary between multiple terminals and participants. It mediates the communication and content distribution, ensuring that participants experience a unified and realistic conference sensation while being able to join from different physical locations through their respective terminals.
2Ease of operation
If multiple persons participate in a conference in the same space, then conference participation is enhanced, but smooth progression deteriorates due to simultaneous speaking requests
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where the conference server receives and processes speaking requests from multiple participants, determines speaker priority based on predefined rules, and provides feedback by granting or denying speaking opportunities. This ensures smooth conference progression while maintaining high participation levels.
Solution Approach 2:
The conference system dynamically manages speaking rights based on real-time requests and predefined priority rules. The server dynamically assigns speaking opportunities to participants, allowing the conference to adapt to varying participation levels and maintain smooth progression regardless of the number of active participants.
3Reliability
If a terminal disconnects from the conference service, then service continuity is broken, but alternative terminal reception is not provided
Solution Approach 1:
The system prepares backup terminals in advance and establishes their availability with the conference server before disconnection occurs. When a primary terminal disconnects, the pre-configured backup terminal can immediately take over, ensuring continuous service without interruption or loss of participants.
Solution Approach 2:
The conference server is designed to manage multiple terminals and their respective users universally. It can seamlessly switch between different terminals based on connection status, allowing any connected terminal to receive conference content regardless of which terminal was originally assigned, thus ensuring reliability while maintaining flexibility.
4Reliability
If conference content is transmitted to all terminals, then content delivery is ensured, but terminal management complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments terminal management by establishing individual connection relationships between the conference server and each terminal. Each terminal is managed separately with its own connection state, allowing the server to selectively transmit content only to active and authorized terminals, reducing overall management complexity while ensuring reliable content delivery.
Solution Approach 2:
The conference server dynamically changes transmission parameters based on terminal connection status and user preferences. It adjusts content delivery parameters such as transmission timing, content type, and priority levels, enabling reliable content delivery to appropriate terminals without managing all terminals uniformly, thus reducing complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
Methods for providing conference service and apparatus thereof are provided, one of methods comprises, receiving identification information of a first user and identification information of a first terminal of the first user from the first terminal of the first terminal, receiving identification information of the first user and identification information of a second terminal of the first user from the second terminal of the first terminal, transmitting first contents to the first terminal of the first user and receiving at least one first reaction information about the first contents from the second terminal of the first user.