Method and apparatus for reducing the amount of information that must be transmitted to slower viewers over a remote viewing session
US8386628B1 · kind B1 · utility
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| Filing date | Feb 16, 2006 |
| Grant date | Feb 26, 2013 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Nov 16, 2028 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG09G2350/00
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
To accommodate different viewer capabilities, update commands may be maintained in an update queue at the server and distributed to viewers according to the viewers' abilities to receive them. As update commands arrive that supersede older update commands, the new update commands may cause the old update commands to be removed from the queue so that the older update commands may be pruned from the update queue. Where the pruned update messages have not yet been sent to the slower viewers, pruning the older update commands from the update queue enables information that will quickly be replaced via another update command to be selectively not transmitted to slower viewers. Panes may be used to keep track of which updates are required to be maintained in the queue and which may be pruned from the queue.
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