Virtual Meeting Multi-Device Joining Without Extra Participant Tiles
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional virtual meeting platforms treat each client device participating in a meeting as a separate participant, leading to inefficient use of computing resources, increased latency, and unnecessary consumption of device resources due to multiple visual items, which discourages users from utilizing multiple devices optimally.
Innovation Solution
A multi-device feature that allows users to join a virtual meeting from multiple client devices as a single participant, utilizing an AI model to determine optimal device configurations for functions such as display, audio input, and output, thereby reducing redundant resource usage and optimizing space on client devices.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If each client device is treated as a separate participant, then the user interface can display multiple visual items representing different participants, but computing resources are used inefficiently and latency increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple client devices into a single participant representation in the user interface. When a user joins a meeting from multiple devices, those devices are consolidated under one visual item rather than creating separate participant tiles for each device, thereby reducing resource consumption while maintaining UI functionality.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables a single participant to utilize multiple client devices simultaneously for different functions (e.g., one device for video, another for audio, third for screen sharing). This multi-functionality approach allows efficient resource utilization without requiring separate participant representations for each device.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple visual items are created for each device, then each device can be represented independently in the meeting, but device resources are consumed redundantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple device representations into a single visual item in the meeting interface. Instead of creating separate participant tiles for each device a user connects with, the system merges them into one consolidated representation, reducing the quantity of visual elements and associated resource consumption while preserving device participation flexibility.
3Ease of operation
If each device is represented as a separate participant, then the meeting interface can accommodate all devices, but space on small-screen devices is unnecessarily consumed
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple device visual items into a single consolidated representation in the meeting interface. This consolidation significantly reduces the screen space required to display all participating devices, particularly benefiting small-screen devices where space is at a premium, while still maintaining complete meeting interface functionality.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods for providing a multi-device user experience for virtual meetings. A user device participating in a virtual meeting is identified. The user device is associated with a user account of a user. A user interface of the virtual meeting includes a visual item representing the user. A virtual meeting configuration associated with the user account is identified. Based on the virtual meeting configuration associated with the user account, one or more additional user devices associated with the user account are identified. The user is allowed to join the virtual meeting via at least one of the one or more additional user devices associated with the user account, within adding an additional visual item to the user interface of the virtual meeting.