Web Meeting Notes Decoupled from Recordings
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current web meeting solutions restrict note-taking inputs to specific recordings, limiting their accessibility, portability, and usability across different sessions, making it difficult for participants to reference contextually relevant information over time.
Innovation Solution
Associating personal annotating inputs with web meeting sessions rather than recordings, allowing for independent handling, importation, exportation, and reuse across sessions, while maintaining associations with recording timelines for context provision.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If notes are associated with specific recordings, then notes can be retrieved during playback, but notes become restrictive and cannot be easily ported to other sessions
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the association relationship between notes and recordings by introducing an intermediate layer (session identification). Notes are associated with session identifiers rather than specific recording instances, allowing the same notes to be referenced across multiple recordings of the same session. This segmentation enables notes to be portable across different recordings while maintaining their contextual association with the session.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements universality by making notes applicable to multiple recordings through session-based association. A single set of notes can be universally accessed across all recordings of a particular session, whether live or archived. This multi-functionality allows notes to serve both as playback references and as portable, reusable resources across different sessions and recordings.
2Loss of information
If notes are bound to recordings, then context can be provided through playback, but searching recordings for context becomes tedious and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary action by pre-associating notes with session identifiers and timestamps during the note-taking process. This preliminary structuring of data enables rapid retrieval and context provision without requiring subsequent searching through recordings. When a user accesses notes, the contextual information is already organized and linked, eliminating the need for time-consuming searches.
3Adaptability or versatility
If notes are made portable across sessions, then reusability improves, but association with specific recording context may be lost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a nested structure where session identifiers contain recording identifiers, which in turn contain timestamp information. This nested doll approach allows notes to be portably associated with sessions while maintaining nested layers of contextual information. When notes are accessed, the system can navigate through the nested structure to retrieve appropriate contextual information from the relevant recording and timestamp, preserving context while enabling portability.
Data Source
AI summary
In various implementations, a computing device is configured to provide context to annotating inputs made during a web meeting session. In some implementations, a plurality of annotating inputs is received by a participant of a web meeting session. Each of the annotating inputs is processed to associate with a unique descriptor that corresponds to one or more of the participant, a web meeting session, a recording of at least a portion of the web meeting session, and a submitted time of the annotating input. Each annotating input is stored to generate an interaction record for referencing each annotating input to a web meeting session and, in some instances, a corresponding recorded portion of the web meeting session. In this regard, annotating inputs can be used to retrieve additional content (i.e., a portion of the recording) that is relevant to the annotating input and employed to provide additional context thereto.