Mission-Critical Video Functional Alias Sharing for Role Identification

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Solution Overview

Problem

In existing MCVideo services, users are unable to share their preferred roles or functional aliases while starting or joining a group call or requesting transmission/reception, which is crucial for identifying their roles in emergency situations.

Innovation Solution

The system enables users to choose and share their preferred functional aliases using XML elements in SIP messages, allowing these roles to be visible to other participants during group calls, with predefined roles managed by the Functional Alias Management unit.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If users participate in MCVideo group calls without sharing functional aliases, then the system operation is simple, but role identification and communication clarity are poor

Engineering Contradiction:
Improverole identification informationVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary encoding of functional alias information into MCVideo messages before transmission. The Functional Alias Management unit pre-processes and embeds role identification data into the message structure, so that when users join the group call, their functional aliases are already included and ready for immediate display and recognition by other participants.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Loss of information

If functional alias information is encoded into MCVideo messages, then role identification is improved, but message processing complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvefunctional alias informationVSAvoidmessage processing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The MCVideo message structure is designed to serve multiple functions simultaneously: it carries video data, control information, and functional alias information. By making the message structure multi-functional and universally applicable for different types of information transmission, the system avoids creating separate complex protocols for role identification, thereby reducing overall processing complexity while still encoding functional alias data effectively.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentEP4118815B1Methods and systems to share functional alias in mission critical video
Publication Date: 2025.10.01 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
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AI summary

The present disclosure provides a method for managing a Mission Critical Video (MCVideo) group call. The method includes transmitting (602), by at least one sender user equipment (UE) in the MCVideo group call, a MCVideo message to an MCVideo Server. The method includes receiving (604), by at least one receiver UE in the MCVideo group call, the MCVideo message from the MCVideo server, wherein atleast one of a plurality of functional alias ID is encoded and included in the MCVideo message. The method includes decoding (606), by the at least one receiver UE in the MCVideo group call, the atleast one of the plurality of functional alias ID from the MCVideo message.