Automated Virtual Meeting Organization System

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Solution Overview

Problem

Organizing virtual meetings over a network is cumbersome and impractical, especially for large groups, due to difficulties in communicating meeting details, allocating resources, ensuring security, and managing bandwidth.

Innovation Solution

A method and system for organizing virtual meetings that involves selecting a meeting date, time, and code, communicating invitations with meeting details, allocating network resources, and ensuring attendees have sufficient bandwidth, using a computer program product to automate these processes and enhance security with passkeys.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If manual procedures are used to communicate meeting details and allocate resources, then security and resource allocation can be ensured, but the cost, effort, and time grow steadily with the number of attendees

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesecurity and resource allocationVSAvoidorganizational complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces an automated meeting organization system that acts as an intermediary between meeting organizers and attendees. This system automatically communicates meeting details, allocates network resources, and manages bandwidth allocation, eliminating the need for manual coordination while maintaining security through automated authentication and resource management protocols.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system enables self-service by allowing attendees to automatically receive meeting invitations, authenticate themselves using meeting codes, and have network resources automatically allocated to them. The system autonomously manages bandwidth allocation and monitors resource usage without requiring manual intervention from organizers for each attendee.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Ease of operation

If automated systems are introduced to simplify meeting organization, then the effort and time required decrease, but system complexity and security concerns increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveease of meeting organizationVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The automated meeting organization system performs multiple functions within a single integrated platform: it generates and distributes meeting invitations, authenticates attendees using meeting codes, allocates network resources, monitors bandwidth usage, and manages security protocols. This multi-functional approach consolidates system complexity into a unified solution rather than requiring separate systems for each function.

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

3Reliability

If network resources are allocated for multiple real-time data streams, then meeting quality improves, but bandwidth requirements and network load increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemeeting qualityVSAvoidbandwidth consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The system dynamically allocates network resources and bandwidth to meeting participants based on real-time requirements. It monitors network conditions and adjusts resource allocation accordingly, allowing high-quality video and audio streams when network capacity is available while reducing bandwidth consumption during peak network load periods. This dynamic approach maintains meeting quality while optimizing bandwidth usage.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS8095409B2Methods and program products for organizing virtual meetings
Publication Date: 2012.01.10 IOCOM UK LTD
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AI summary

A method for organizing a virtual meeting includes steps of creating a meeting file, the meeting file including at least a meeting date, a meeting start time, a meeting duration time, and a meeting code. The meeting file is stored on a memory accessible to the network, and at least one attendee is specified. A step of communicating a meeting invitation to the at least one attendee is also performed, with the invitation including at least the meeting date, meeting start time, meeting code, and a meeting entry portal. Methods and systems of the invention may be embodied in computers and computer program products.