Virtual Turret Phone Interface for Trader Communication Efficiency
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current software turret phone systems lack user-friendly interfaces and fail to fully utilize advanced user interface technologies, such as touch and gestures, resulting in non-intuitive and inefficient user experiences for financial traders.
Innovation Solution
A graphical user interface system that provides turret phone functionalities through a virtual three-dimensional environment, allowing users to manage communication lines via gestures, voice commands, and graphical elements, enabling intuitive control of audio, video, and text communication, with features like audio spatialization for a realistic listening experience.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If traditional physical turret phones are used, then communication functionality is reliable, but device complexity and lack of user-friendly interface prevail
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a software-based virtual turret phone that replicates the functionality of traditional physical turret phones. The virtual environment copies communication line management, calling capabilities, and user interactions into a graphical interface, allowing users to access turret phone features through software rather than physical hardware, thus improving ease of operation while maintaining core functionality
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transitions from two-dimensional physical button interfaces to a three-dimensional virtual environment. Users interact with communication lines and calling features through spatial navigation in a virtual space, enabling more intuitive control and information visualization while reducing the perceived complexity of managing multiple communication channels
2Productivity
If soft-turrets use basic graphical interfaces, then device complexity is reduced, but productivity and user efficiency deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a dynamic virtual environment that adapts to user actions and communication states. The interface responds in real-time to user inputs, dynamically updating communication line statuses, enabling rapid connection management, and providing context-aware information display, thereby enhancing both productivity and ease of operation simultaneously
Solution Approach 2:
The virtual turret phone interface integrates multiple communication functions including voice calls, messaging, and communication line management into a single unified environment. Users can perform diverse communication tasks through consistent interaction patterns, improving efficiency by eliminating the need to switch between different applications or interface types
3Ease of operation
If soft-turrets utilize advanced interface technologies, then ease of operation improves, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a virtual environment as an intermediary layer between the user and the underlying communication system. Complex software functions for managing communication lines and processing gestures are encapsulated within the virtual environment, presenting simplified interaction methods to users while handling complexity internally, thus improving ease of operation without exposing users to software complexity
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for software turret phone functionalities. A system can display, via a graphical user interface, graphical elements grouped according to a common attribute. Each of the graphical elements can represent an open communication line connecting a first device associated with a first user with a second respective device associated with a second respective user. The system can receive a selection of a graphical element of the graphical elements from the first user, the selection indicating a selected user associated with a respective device. Based on the selection, the system can manipulate a corresponding open communication line connecting the first device associated with the first user with the respective device associated with the selected user.