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Real time communications system

US8458245B1 · kind B1 · utility

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58Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateAug 24, 2006
Grant dateJun 4, 2013
Priority date
Expiry dateMay 5, 2028

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L63/04
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A computerized human communication arbitrating and distributing system, including a controller digital computer and a plurality of participator digital computers, each of the participator computers including an input device for receiving human-input information from a human user and an output device for presenting information to the user, each said user having a user identity. A connection, such as Internet, links the controller computer with each of the participator computers. Controller software runs on the controller computer to arbitrate in accordance with predefined rules including said user identity, which ones of the participator computers can interact in one of a plurality of groups through the controller computer and to distribute real time data to the respective ones of the groups. Participator software runs on each of the participator computers to handle a user interface permitting one said user to send a multimedia information message to the controller computer, which arbitrates which of the participator computers receive the multimedia information message and conveys the multimedia information message to the selected participator computers to present the multimedia inf…

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