Virtual Expo Booth Previews for Content Assessment

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Solution Overview

Problem

Participants in virtual expos face challenges in efficiently navigating and identifying content of interest within virtual expo booths, leading to disruptions and anxiety due to the need to join and leave presentations repeatedly.

Innovation Solution

The implementation of virtual expo booth previews, which allow participants to view multimedia streams associated with an expo booth for a predetermined period without entering the booth, enabling them to assess content interest before joining.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If participants join and leave presentations repeatedly to navigate virtual expo booths, then they can access different content, but disruptions and anxiety increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent access flexibilityVSAvoidparticipant experience stability

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system provides a preview function that allows participants to view a predetermined portion of presentation content before actually joining the expo booth. This preliminary action enables participants to assess whether the content interests them before committing to join, thereby reducing the need to repeatedly join and leave and minimizing disruptions to the presentation flow.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Difficulty of detecting and measuring

If participants repeatedly join and leave expo booths to assess content interest, then they can identify content of interest, but time is lost

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent interest identificationVSAvoidtime for content assessment

Core Design Contradiction:

Difficulty of detecting and measuringVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The preview function provides a time-efficient way for participants to assess content interest by displaying a predetermined portion of the presentation before the actual expo booth session begins. This eliminates the need for repeated joining and leaving, significantly reducing the time lost during content assessment while still enabling participants to identify whether the content interests them.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

3Loss of information

If participants enter expo booths to view content, then they can access full presentation, but navigation efficiency decreases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent information availabilityVSAvoidnavigation efficiency

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the expo booth content into two parts: a preview portion that can be viewed without entering the booth, and the full presentation content that is accessible only after joining. This segmentation allows participants to efficiently navigate and assess content interest through the preview, improving navigation efficiency while still providing access to full content information when needed.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS20250203046A1Virtual expo booth previews

Publication Date: 2025.06.19 ZOOM COMMUNICATIONS INC

AI summary

One example method for virtual expo booth previews includes joining a virtual expo hosted by a video conference provider, the virtual expo including a plurality of virtual expo booths; presenting a graphical representation of the virtual expo and one or more virtual expo booths of the plurality of virtual expo booths; receiving an input indicating a first expo booth of the plurality of virtual expo booths; receiving, from the video conference provider, one or more multimedia streams associated with the first virtual expo booth; and presenting the one or more multimedia streams