Video Mediation Sub-Session Management for Intimate Interaction
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current video mediation platforms face challenges in providing intensive interaction between a single host and multiple users, as existing technologies do not effectively manage multiple video call sessions, leading to a need for more personalized interactions within live video calls.
Innovation Solution
The solution involves establishing a sub-session for a sub-video while maintaining a main session, allowing the host to prioritize data transmission and reception, control display areas for participating users, and manage user terminal participation in sub-sessions, enabling intimate interactions and enhancing user engagement.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a single host interacts with many users through live video calls, then the host becomes more accessible to fans, but intensive interaction with individual users or small groups becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides a large-scale video call session into multiple small-scale sub-sessions. The host can create several sub-rooms each accommodating a limited number of users (e.g., 2-5 users per sub-session), transforming one complex large-group interaction into multiple manageable small-group interactions. This segmentation resolves the contradiction by enabling intensive interaction in small groups while maintaining the overall platform's ability to serve many users.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a hierarchical session structure with main sessions and sub-sessions operating at different levels. The host can simultaneously maintain a main session for broad accessibility and multiple sub-sessions for intensive interaction. This dimensional organization allows the system to handle both large-scale and small-scale interactions without conflict, resolving the contradiction between accessibility and intensive interaction capability.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple video call sessions are maintained simultaneously, then intensive user interaction is enabled, but data transmission and session management complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a session management server as an intermediary that coordinates between the host terminal, multiple user terminals, and various sub-sessions. This intermediary handles the complex tasks of session establishment, maintenance, and termination across multiple concurrent video calls. By offloading this coordination burden to a dedicated intermediary system, the patent enables multiple simultaneous sessions without proportionally increasing the complexity for individual participants.
Solution Approach 2:
The session management system is designed with universal functionality to handle diverse session types (main sessions, sub-sessions, different user configurations) through a unified framework. This multi-functional design allows the same infrastructure to manage various session configurations simultaneously, reducing the marginal complexity increase when adding more sessions compared to implementing separate management systems for each session type.
3Productivity
If sub-session data is prioritized for transmission, then user engagement in sub-sessions improves, but data transmission load increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies different quality priorities to different data streams based on their contextual importance. Sub-session data, which enables intensive host-user interaction, is assigned higher transmission priority and quality assurance compared to main session data. This local quality differentiation ensures that critical interaction data receives adequate bandwidth and reliability while still allowing the system to manage overall transmission loads efficiently through selective prioritization rather than uniform high-quality transmission across all sessions.
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AI summary
Provided is a video mediating apparatus between a host terminal and a user terminal, and a method and computer readable recording medium thereof. A video mediation method of the present disclosure includes, between a host terminal and at least one user terminal, establishing a main session for mediating a main video including a video transmitted from the host terminal to the at least one user terminal, mediating the main video through the main session, identifying a user terminal set selected among the at least one user terminal, establishing a sub-session for mediating a sub-video including a video transmitted from the host terminal to the user terminal set between the host terminal and the user terminal set while maintaining the main session, and mediating the sub-video through the sub-session while maintaining the main session.