Method and apparatus for synchronizing applications' consumption of remote data
US10855763B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Feb 12, 2020 |
| Grant date | Dec 1, 2020 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 12, 2040 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04N21/8547
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Presented here are methods and systems for enabling multiple consumers to view an ordered data stream at the same time. An embodiment of the invention follows a client-server model, in which there is one server that is the source of the data and multiple clients that are the consumers of the data. Additionally, this invention can also be embodied by a number of other models, including but not limited to: 1) multiple servers or server clusters acting as data sources, and multiple clients acting as consumers, 2) pure peer-to-peer, where each peer can be both a source and/or a consumer of data, 3) a server-assisted peer-to-peer model, where peers may be both a source and/or a consumer of data and a set of one or more servers act as source and back-up and provide meta-information about the peers, such as which data is available from which peer.
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