Videoconference Site Name Encoding for Multi-Language Caller ID
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Solution Overview
Problem
Videoconferencing systems fail to effectively store and exchange site names in languages using non-Latin alphabets, such as Chinese, Japanese, and Russian, due to lack of standardization in storage and transmission formats, leading to inconvenient display of identifiers in English during conferences.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for storing and transmitting videoconference site names in double byte character sets, allowing multiple site names in different languages, converting native binary formats to text format using Unicode encoding, and displaying site names in compatible languages during caller ID exchange.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If site names are stored in native binary format, then storage efficiency is improved, but compatibility and standardization are worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the storage format parameter from native binary to text format (ASCII/Unicode), enabling standardized representation of characters from different languages while maintaining efficient storage and transmission capabilities
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces text format as an intermediary representation layer between native binary formats and language display requirements, allowing endpoints with different language settings to exchange site names through a standardized text-based protocol
2Device complexity
If site names are displayed in English only, then system simplicity is improved, but user convenience is worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary conversion of site names to text format during storage, so that when endpoints exchange caller ID information, the names are already in a standardized format that can be displayed in the user's local language without requiring complex real-time translation
Solution Approach 2:
The patent makes the site name storage system universal by supporting multiple languages through standardized text format, allowing the same system to serve users with different language preferences without requiring separate systems for each language
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple language support is added, then adaptability is improved, but system complexity is worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the fundamental parameter of character encoding from language-specific binary formats to a universal text format, which simplifies the system architecture while enabling support for multiple languages through a single standardized interface
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AI summary
Disclosed herein is a system and method for storing and transmitting a videoconference system name (identifier) in the languages of double byte character sets. Although described in terms of a videoconferencing system, the techniques described herein have applicability to various other systems that rely upon inter-language compatibility, including telephonic communication such as cell phones or IP phones, as well as various computer network applications in which computers having different default languages are in communication. In a preferred embodiment, the system identifier is stored in a text or ASCII format rather than native (binary) format. Additionally, a system employing a preferred embodiment of the teachings described herein allows a particular system to have multiple site names in multiple different languages. This allows such a system to interface and exchange identifier data with other systems having different language settings during a caller ID exchange.