Virtual Office Layout Mapping for Real Office Navigation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing virtual office layouts lack the ability to be intelligently mapped to real onsite office layouts, making it inconvenient for users to find and navigate their peers' offices and replicate the company structure for potential business partners.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that maps actual users' real office layouts to correlated virtual office layouts using human resource data and building floor maps, creating an augmented virtual office layout that customizes to user preferences and tracks activities, rendering real and virtual positions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If virtual office layouts are created without intelligent mapping to real office layouts, then implementation is simple and quick, but user convenience and collaboration efficiency deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a virtual copy of the real office layout by mapping physical office spaces, departments, and peer locations into a virtual environment. This copying approach preserves the spatial relationships and organizational structure of the real office, enabling users to navigate and interact in the virtual space as they would in the physical space, thereby improving ease of operation without requiring complex customizations from users
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary mapping and configuration of the virtual office layout before users log in. By pre-establishing the correspondence between real and virtual office spaces, departments, and peer locations, the system eliminates the need for users to manually configure their environment, reducing operational complexity while enhancing user convenience
2Adaptability or versatility
If virtual office layouts do not mirror company structure, then implementation is faster and simpler, but client perception and professional image deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent systematically copies the company's organizational structure, departmental arrangements, and office hierarchies from the real office layout into the virtual environment. This creates an accurate digital representation that can be presented to clients to convey professional image and company structure without requiring complex manual configuration
Solution Approach 2:
The mapping system serves multiple functions simultaneously: it creates the virtual office layout, replicates company structure, enables peer interaction, and provides a professional image for clients. This multi-functionality approach increases adaptability while managing complexity through integrated system design
3Productivity
If detailed tracking of user activities is implemented, then collaboration monitoring and productivity improve, but system complexity and data processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements tracking of user activities, peer locations, and interaction patterns in the virtual office environment. This feedback mechanism provides information about collaboration patterns and productivity metrics, enabling the system to enhance collaboration efficiency while managing complexity through automated data collection and analysis
Data Source
AI summary
The program intelligently assigns a virtual office layout (VOL) to one or more actual users' real on-site office layout (ROL) based on human resource mapping. The method maps the one or more actual users' ROL to a correlated VOL, according to human resource data and a real building floor map. The method creates an augmented virtual office layout (AVOL) based on the mapping. The method customizes the AVOL according to the one or more actual users' preferences and real office location and tracks the one or more users' activities on the AVOL. The method renders the one or more users' real or preferred office location and the one or more users' virtual position on the AVOL.