Video Call Overlay Window for Multitasking and Instant Initiation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current video-call systems often disrupt users' multitasking experiences by requiring full-screen attention, and the process of setting up and initiating calls can be cumbersome and time-consuming, leading to a less-than-smooth user experience.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a method that allows video streams to be displayed in a small-overlay-window on mobile devices, enabling users to engage in video calls while using other applications, and using a communication system to determine user availability for call sessions, sending notifications only when certainty of availability is high, thereby simplifying the call setup process.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Illumination intensity
If video calls are displayed in full-screen mode, then video quality and user engagement are improved, but multitasking capability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The video call interface is segmented into a small overlay window that can coexist with other applications on the mobile device screen. This allows the video call to occupy only a portion of the display area rather than requiring full-screen mode, enabling users to multitask while maintaining video call functionality.
Solution Approach 2:
The video call interface transitions from a traditional full-screen 2D display to a small overlay window that operates in a different spatial dimension on the screen. This dimensional change allows the video call to coexist with other applications without blocking the entire display area.
2Reliability
If the call setup process includes multiple confirmation steps, then call accuracy is improved, but call initiation time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by determining user availability and sending notifications before the actual call initiation. This preliminary check and notification process allows for faster call setup by pre-validating user availability and obtaining preliminary consent, reducing the need for multiple confirmation steps during the actual call initiation.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback by notifying the user of incoming call requests and receiving user responses. This feedback mechanism allows the system to adjust the call setup process based on user availability and preferences, improving call accuracy while minimizing initiation time by only proceeding with calls that have user confirmation.
Data Source
AI summary
In one embodiment, a method includes determining, by a computer server machine, that a callee-user is available for a communication session based on location information associated with a client system of the callee-user; sending, by the computer server machine, in response to determining that the callee-user is available, a notification to a client system of a caller-user indicating that the callee-user is available; receiving, by the computer server machine, a request from the client system of the caller-user to initiate the communication session; establishing, by the computer server machine, the communication session to enable a media stream comprising media captured at the client system of the caller-user to be received at the client system of a callee-user; and sending, by the computer server machine, the media captured at the client system of the caller-user to the client system of the callee-user.