Integrated Online Workspace Meeting Data Management

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing online collaboration systems disconnect online meetings from shared workspaces, requiring manual integration of meeting records and content, which disrupts the collaborative experience and hinders seamless data management and searchability.

Innovation Solution

Integrating online meetings with shared workspaces by allowing meetings to be organized and recorded within the workspace, automatically storing and indexing changes, new content, and meeting records, ensuring data re-usability and searchability.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If online meetings are treated separately from shared workspaces, then communication functionality is provided, but manual integration is required which disrupts collaborative experience

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecollaborative experienceVSAvoidmanual integration time
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges online meeting functionality with shared workspace by integrating the meeting application into the workspace environment. Meeting records, chat messages, and collaborative content are automatically stored and linked within the workspace structure, eliminating the need for manual integration and providing a seamless collaborative experience across both communication and document work.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

2Reliability

If meetings are organized outside the workspace, then communication can occur, but data management and searchability are hindered

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata managementVSAvoidsystem integration
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The shared workspace is designed to serve multiple functions: it acts as both a document collaboration platform and a meeting management system. The workspace can store meeting records, host online meetings, manage collaborative documents, and provide centralized searchability. This multi-functionality ensures reliable data management while maintaining a unified system architecture that does not increase complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

3Productivity

If manual movement of meeting records to workspace is required, then data can be stored, but continuity of collaborative efforts is disrupted

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecollaborative efficiencyVSAvoiddata transfer time
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-configuring the workspace to automatically receive and store meeting records, chat messages, and collaborative content. The integration is established in advance through system architecture design, so that during actual meetings and collaboration activities, data flows automatically without requiring manual movement operations, thus maintaining continuity and efficiency.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS10389769B2Integrated real time collaboration experiences with online workspace
Publication Date: 2019.08.20 MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC
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AI summary

Online meeting experience is integrated with online and/or offline collaborative workspace(s). Documents and other content generated through team collaboration and managed by a content management system are automatically made available during the meeting, updated, and stored in collaborative workspace linked to a particular meeting. Newly generated content during the meeting is also added to the workspace. As a result, online meetings become part of the collaborative workspace rendering reusable and searchable data through meeting content and updates to associated documents.