Web Event Channel Player with Unified Past, Current, and Future Event Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current web event distribution systems lack the ability to seamlessly embed and manage channels with past, current, and future events, particularly in web conferencing and video distribution, where users cannot easily access recorded or live events in a unified and synchronized manner.
Innovation Solution
A web event distribution system that provides an embeddable code for a channel player, allowing users to access channels with past, current, and future events, featuring a channel management system that aggregates and distinguishes event types, and streams archived, upcoming, or live events to user devices, with synchronization of audio and images.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If pre-recorded videos are embedded by inserting code for each video, then video distribution is enabled, but the system cannot seamlessly manage channels with past, current, and future events in a unified manner
Solution Approach 1:
The channel player is designed as a universal component that can handle multiple types of events (past archived events, current live events, and future scheduled events) through a single unified interface. The embeddable code provides a standardized method for accessing different event types without requiring separate distribution mechanisms for each event category, thereby enabling versatile channel management while maintaining system simplicity.
2Ease of operation
If web conferencing systems provide separate access methods for recorded and live events, then event distribution is achieved, but users cannot easily access events in a unified and synchronized manner
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges access to past, current, and future events into a single channel player interface. The embeddable code consolidates multiple event access methods into one unified component that presents all event types in chronological order with clear visual distinction. This merging eliminates the need for separate access methods while preserving complete event information and maintaining synchronization through the unified interface.
3Reliability
If a channel management system maintains a database of all events, then comprehensive event management is achieved, but the interface becomes complex and difficult to navigate
Solution Approach 1:
The channel player segments the comprehensive event database into distinct visual sections: archived events, upcoming events, and live events. Each segment is clearly distinguished through visual cues such as color coding or icons. The embeddable code automatically organizes events chronologically within each segment, allowing users to navigate the complete event database through a simplified, segmented interface that maintains information completeness while improving usability.
Data Source
AI summary
Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for providing access to a channel via an embedded web event channel player. In exemplary embodiments, an embeddable code associated with the channel is provided to a channel owner. Once embedded, the code will provide an instance of the channel player on a user's device that can access the channel. A list of events is aggregated and provided for the channel associated with the channel player. Upon a request by a user, an event from the list of events may be streamed to the channel player.