Patent application number | Description | Published |
20110072366 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MULTIMEDIA MULTIPOINT REAL-TIME CONFERENCING - A system is disclosed for multimedia multipoint real-time conferencing that includes a communication module to receive via a transport protocol, from a client embedded in a host website (such as a social networking website, a blog, or a dating website), a request to share media content in a real-time group conference associated with users of a virtual room. The content may include an audio, a video, a text, or a HyperText Markup Language (HTML) code referencing a third-party resource. The request may be associated with routing requirements and transport characteristics. The system may further include a content encoder at the host website to create a data packet encapsulating the transport characteristics and the routing requirements. The system may further include a multipoint router to share the content via the transport protocol in the real-time group conference associated with the users of the virtual room. The shared content may include implicit and explicit recommendations. | 03-24-2011 |
20130091286 | SLIPSTREAM BANDWIDTH MANAGEMENT ALGORITHM - In accordance with disclosed embodiments, there are provided methods, systems, and apparatuses for implementing a slipstream bandwidth management algorithm including, for example, means for executing an application a computing device, in which the application is to communicate with a remote computing device over a public Internet; means for approximating outgoing bandwidth for communications from the computing device to the remote computing device; means for approximating incoming bandwidth for communications received at the computing device from the remote computing device; means for allocating multiple simultaneous Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) connections in support of the application based at least in part on the approximated outgoing bandwidth and based further on the approximated incoming bandwidth; and means for iteratively adjusting bandwidth communicated for the application between the computing device and the remote computing device based at least in part on latency between the computing device and the remote computing device. Other related embodiments are disclosed. | 04-11-2013 |
20130268807 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUSES FOR IMPLEMENTING A STREAMING PLATFORM IO PUMP AND REGULATOR - In accordance with disclosed embodiments, there are provided methods, systems, and apparatuses for implementing a streaming platform IO pump and regulator including, for example, means for executing an application at the computing device; requesting data for the application from a second computing device communicably interfaced with the first computing device via a public Internet; calculating an estimated arrival time for the data to be returned from the second computing device; determining the data fails to arrive within the estimated arrival time calculated; initiating a new connection to the second computing device; and re-sending the request for the data for the application to the second computing device via the new connection. Other related embodiments are disclosed. | 10-10-2013 |
20130346499 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUSES FOR IMPLEMENTING FRAME AGGREGATION WITH SCREEN SHARING - In accordance with disclosed embodiments, there are provided methods, systems, and apparatuses for implementing frame aggregation with screen sharing including, for example, means for receiving, at a server, a stream of delta frames from a publishing client as part of a screen sharing session with one or more viewing clients; establishing a FIFO buffer for each of the respective one or more viewing clients on 1:1 basis; queuing a copy of the stream of delta frames into each of the FIFO buffers corresponding to the one or more viewing clients, wherein the stream of delta frames are transmitted from the respective FIFO buffers to the corresponding one or more client viewers; monitoring each of the respective FIFO buffers for each of the one or more viewing clients to determine if two or more delta frames are concurrently queued in any single one of the respective FIFO buffers at any given time; aggregating the two or more delta frames into a single aggregated delta frame; re-queuing the aggregated delta frame; and transmitting the aggregated delta frame to the respective viewing client. Other related embodiments are disclosed. | 12-26-2013 |
20130346500 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUSES FOR ACCEPTING LATE JOINERS WITH SCREEN SHARING - In accordance with disclosed embodiments, there are provided methods, systems, and apparatuses for accepting late joiners with screen sharing including, for example, means for receiving, at a server, a key frame from a publishing client sharing its screen, the key frame defining the screen of the publishing client in its entirety at the beginning of a screen sharing session with one or more viewing clients; transmitting the key frame to the one or more viewing clients; iteratively processing each of a plurality of delta frames from the publishing client specifying changes to the screen of the publishing client, wherein the iterative processing includes: (i) receiving each delta frame, (ii) updating an aggregated current key frame with the delta frame received, and (iii) sending the delta frame to the one or more viewing clients. Such means further include: accepting a late joiner viewing client for the screen sharing session; sending the aggregated current key frame to the late joiner viewing client; and sending subsequently received delta frames to the one or more viewing clients and to the late joiner viewing client. Other related embodiments are disclosed. | 12-26-2013 |
20140025777 | SLIPSTREAM BANDWIDTH MANAGEMENT ALGORITHM - In accordance with disclosed embodiments, there are provided methods, systems, and apparatuses for implementing a slipstream bandwidth management algorithm including, for example, means for executing an application a computing device, in which the application is to communicate with a remote computing device over a public Internet; means for approximating outgoing bandwidth for communications from the computing device to the remote computing device; means for approximating incoming bandwidth for communications received at the computing device from the remote computing device; means for allocating multiple simultaneous Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) connections in support of the application based at least in part on the approximated outgoing bandwidth and based further on the approximated incoming bandwidth; and means for iteratively adjusting bandwidth communicated for the application between the computing device and the remote computing device based at least in part on latency between the computing device and the remote computing device. Other related embodiments are disclosed. | 01-23-2014 |
20150113047 | RULES-BASED MULTIPOINT ROUTING OF REAL-TIME INFORMATION USING CLIENT-SERVER ARCHITECTURE - A media routing server is described. The media routing server may be configured to receive media information from a source computing system. The media routing server may be configured to scale the media information based on characteristics of one or more destination computing systems. Each scaled media information is unique to the characteristics of each destination computing system. The media information may comprise a plurality of objects. Priority information and sequencing information may be assigned to the objects by the media routing server. The media routing server may be configured to transmit the scaled media information to each destination computing system based on at least the priority information and the sequencing information. | 04-23-2015 |
20150215223 | STREAMING INFORMATION BASED ON AVAILABLE BANDWIDTH - A method and system for streaming information associated with a server and a computing system is described. The method may include increasing a packet size used for the streaming of information from a first packet size to a second packet size based on an identified increase in available bandwidth. The method further includes increasing a number of simultaneous connections used for the streaming of information from a first number of simultaneous connections to a second number of simultaneous connections based on the identified increase in available bandwidth in response to a determination that the second packet size equals a maximum packet size for a protocol used for the streaming of the information. | 07-30-2015 |
20150215389 | DISTRIBUTED SERVER ARCHITECTURE - A database system includes media servers and file servers. The media servers may establish network connections with clients and receive file requests over the network connections. The media servers then may use an indexing scheme to distribute the file requests to the file servers. The media servers may reduce the amount of connection handshaking by receiving multiple file requests over the same client connections. The media servers also may detect file server failures and dynamically reassign file requests to other operating file servers. The unique configuration of media servers and file servers enable the database system to load balance client connections while also maintaining file associations with particular file servers. | 07-30-2015 |