Web Conference Content Extraction for Copy Paste
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional web conference applications do not allow participants to copy and paste content from shared electronic materials, such as documents or video streams, limiting interactive functionality during online sessions.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a web conferencing system with an extraction module that analyzes shared content, extracts data items like text and images, and provides them to a participant's clipboard for copying and pasting, enabling interactive engagement with shared content during web conferences.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional web conference applications provide content as video stream only, then system simplicity is maintained, but participant interaction capability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts text and data from the video stream content and makes it available in a separate, accessible format. The system pulls out text elements from the visual stream and provides them through a clipboard interface, allowing participants to copy and paste content without changing the core video streaming mechanism.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a clipboard as an intermediary component between the video stream and participant devices. This clipboard acts as a mediator that receives content from the conference application and makes it available for copying, without requiring direct modification of the video streaming infrastructure.
2Productivity
If web conference applications allow copy and paste functionality, then participant productivity improves, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent enables participants to service their own content needs by providing them with direct access to a clipboard where they can select and copy content. The system provides the infrastructure, but participants autonomously perform the content transfer operations without requiring complex automated content extraction or processing features.
3Ease of operation
If text extraction is implemented from video stream, then content accessibility improves, but processing time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs text extraction and preparation of content for copying in advance, during the conference session itself. By continuously maintaining the clipboard with available content from the shared materials, the system prepares content for immediate copying without requiring processing delays when participants want to copy text.
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AI summary
Techniques are disclosed for providing copy/paste support for web conference content. Methods and systems allow copy/paste operations in web conference sessions with multimedia content based on data extracted from conference content transmitted during the web conference. The web conference can connect clients for live sharing of documents, audio, video, applications such as web applications, and web pages. In one embodiment, a conference application can receive content from a first client participating in the web conference. The conference application can extract data items from the content. The conference application can store the extracted data items. The conference application can also receive, from a second client participating in the web conference, a selection of a portion of the conference content. The conference application can retrieve extracted data items corresponding to the selection, and then provide, via the web conference, to the second client participating in the web conference, the retrieved data items.