Unified Event Platform for Physical and Virtual Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing event hosting systems provide inconsistent experiences for both operators and participants in physical and virtual events, requiring separate technologies and procedures, which increases time and expense for hosts and limits user participation.
Innovation Solution
An advanced platform system that integrates physical and virtual events, allowing for a unified user interface and operator interface, enabling simultaneous hosting and participation across both formats, with features like unified submission controls, lane management, and notifications, utilizing a computer system with a datastore and trained learning models for remuneration information.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If separate technologies and procedures are used for physical and virtual events, then each event type can be optimized for its specific format, but the system complexity increases and user experience becomes inconsistent
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines physical and virtual event hosting into a single integrated platform that manages both event types simultaneously. The system unifies event creation, participant management, and execution workflows into one cohesive architecture, eliminating the need for separate systems while maintaining the ability to handle both physical and virtual event formats with consistent user experiences.
Solution Approach 2:
The platform is designed as a universal system that can host both physical and virtual events through a single interface. The event hosting capability is made multi-functional, allowing the same core system to adapt to different event formats (physical, virtual, or hybrid) without requiring separate specialized systems, thereby reducing overall system complexity.
2Reliability
If separate technologies and procedures are used for physical and virtual events, then each event type can be optimized for its specific format, but the time and expense for hosts increases
Solution Approach 1:
The platform provides universal event hosting capabilities that work across both physical and virtual formats through a single system. This multi-functionality allows hosts to manage different event types using the same tools and procedures, significantly reducing the time and expense required for setup and execution compared to maintaining separate specialized systems.
3Ease of operation
If operators host physical or virtual events separately, then each event can be managed with dedicated resources, but the operator's flexibility and resource utilization decrease
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables operators to manage both physical and virtual events through a single unified platform, providing ease of operation while maintaining flexibility. The universal interface allows operators to switch between event formats seamlessly and allocate resources dynamically across different event types, enhancing both operational simplicity and adaptability.
Solution Approach 2:
The platform provides dynamic resource allocation and event format switching capabilities, allowing operators to adaptively manage resources between physical and virtual events based on real-time needs. This dynamic approach enhances flexibility while maintaining ease of operation through automated resource management.
4Adaptability or versatility
If different technologies are used for physical and virtual events, then each event type can have specialized features, but the user experience becomes inconsistent
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the user interfaces and interaction models for physical and virtual events into a unified experience. By combining the technological foundations while maintaining format-specific capabilities, the system ensures that participants and operators experience consistent workflows, navigation, and engagement patterns regardless of whether they are participating in physical or virtual events.
Data Source
AI summary
An advanced event platform system and method are provided for generating a series of interfaces and controls applied across both physical and virtual events. The platform and associated method are accessible from a number of devices of varying configurations and adapted to provide a consistent user experience for operators hosting an event and event participants. The advanced platform system and method further provides consistent interaction and control of a plurality of available items spread over a plurality of lanes of an event, including the ability to modify descriptions for available items of an event or assign an available item across lanes or reassign an available item.