Webinar Breakout Room Access Control via Selective Assignment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Managing large numbers of participants in webinars to transition them efficiently into breakout rooms is challenging, especially when tens of thousands of participants need to be moved into thousands of different breakout rooms, as it involves transmitting significant amounts of information and ensuring accurate assignment without broadcasting all breakout room assignments to all participants.
Innovation Solution
The system initiates sub-meetings corresponding to each breakout room and broadcasts assignments to participants, allowing client devices to request access information and join the assigned sub-meeting, thereby enabling efficient and secure transition of participants into breakout rooms without overwhelming them with irrelevant information.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If the system transmits breakout room assignments to all participants, then accurate assignment is achieved, but bandwidth consumption increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts only the necessary information (individual breakout room assignment) from the complete set of all breakout room assignments, and transmits it selectively to each participant. This eliminates the waste of transmitting irrelevant assignment data to participants who will not join those rooms, while still ensuring accurate assignment guidance.
2Ease of operation
If the system allows open access to breakout rooms, then ease of joining is improved, but security and control are compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary authentication mechanism where participants must present a generated access code to join a breakout room. The system verifies this code before granting access, acting as a mediator between the participant's joining request and the breakout room's security protocol. This maintains ease of joining while ensuring security and control.
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AI summary
One example method includes transmitting a message to a first client device indicating a transition to a first sub-meeting of a webinar, the first client device connected to a main meeting of the webinar and associated with a first participant, receiving, from the first client device, a request for access information to join the first sub-meeting; transmitting the access information for the first sub-meeting to the first client device, receiving, from the first client device, a request to join the first sub-meeting, the request based on the access information for the first sub-meeting, and joining the first client device to the first sub-meeting.