Webinar Audio Mediation via Priority-Based Submission Filtering
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current video webinar systems face challenges in facilitating effective participant interactions, as they typically operate in a one-way communication format, making it difficult for participants to provide real-time feedback to presenters.
Innovation Solution
The system establishes a video webinar meeting, admits a host and participants, and allows participants to submit questions or comments, which are then prioritized based on parameters such as content analysis and participant reputation. The system then selectively enables participants to pose their submissions to the host or presenter.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If audio streams from all participants are distributed to other participants in real-time, then participant interaction is enhanced, but system complexity and network bandwidth requirements increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a server as an intermediary that receives, processes, and manages participant submissions rather than allowing direct peer-to-peer audio stream distribution. The server acts as a mediator that filters and prioritizes content, reducing the complexity of direct participant-to-participant communication while maintaining interaction capabilities through controlled submission distribution to the host and other participants.
2Productivity
If all participant submissions are allowed simultaneously, then real-time feedback is maximized, but the presenter becomes overwhelmed with redundant or irrelevant questions
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by receiving and analyzing participant submissions before distributing them to the presenter. The server pre-processes submissions, determines their priority based on relevance and redundancy analysis, and filters out low-value content before it reaches the presenter. This preliminary filtering ensures that only high-priority, non-redundant submissions are presented to the host, maintaining feedback quality while preventing overwhelming the presenter.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements a feedback mechanism where submissions are analyzed for redundancy and relevance, and priority is assigned based on this analysis. The server provides feedback to participants about the status of their submissions and uses this information to manage the flow of questions to the presenter, ensuring optimal interaction without overwhelming the host.
3Loss of energy
If audio streams are disabled for participants, then network bandwidth is conserved, but participant ability to provide feedback is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the essential feedback functionality from continuous audio stream distribution and implements it through a separate submission mechanism. Instead of requiring full audio stream distribution to enable feedback, the system extracts and prioritizes key information through text or structured submissions, conserving network bandwidth while maintaining the core feedback capability through selective audio stream distribution only when necessary.
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AI summary
One example method for mediating participant interactions during a video webinar meeting includes establishing a video webinar meeting; admitting a host and a plurality of participants to the video webinar meeting; not distributing audio streams from the plurality of participants to other participants in the video webinar meeting; receiving, from a first participant, a first submission to be posed during the video webinar meeting; determining a priority for the first submission based on one or more parameters; and distributing an audio stream associated with the first participant to the host and the remaining plurality of participants based on the priority to enable the first participant to pose the first submission.