Establishing remote connections
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1. A method comprising:
- contacting a remote resource having connection data for a viewer to interact with one or more senders;
acquiring the connection data from the remote resource;
establishing connections to the one or more senders on behalf of the viewer and in response to the connection data; and
receiving graphical data over the connections from the one or more senders.
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Abstract
A remote network resource is contacted to acquire connection data. The connection data is associated with connecting a viewer to one or more senders. In response to the connection data, one or more connections are established between the viewer and the one or more senders. Graphical data is received over the connections from the one or more senders and presented to the viewer.
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1. A method comprising:
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contacting a remote resource having connection data for a viewer to interact with one or more senders;
acquiring the connection data from the remote resource;
establishing connections to the one or more senders on behalf of the viewer and in response to the connection data; and
receiving graphical data over the connections from the one or more senders. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A method comprising:
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maintaining selective associations between viewers and senders over a network;
assigning connection data to each of the associations, wherein the connection data permits the viewers to remotely connect to the senders over the network; and
processing queries received over the network from receivers, wherein the queries are directed to acquiring identities of the senders and the connection data for given viewers, which are provided as search operands for the queries by the receivers. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A system, comprising:
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a receiver; and
a remote network resource, wherein the receiver manages connections between one or more viewers and one or more senders by interacting with the remote network resource to acquire connection data associated with the connections, and wherein the receiver receives graphical data over the connections from the one or more senders and presents the graphical data to the one or more viewers. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A system, comprising:
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a receiver;
a sender; and
means for automatically connecting a viewer interfaced to the receiver to the sender, wherein the means for automatically connecting the viewer provides the receiver with connection data for connecting the viewer to the sender. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24)
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25. A machine readable medium for establishing remote connections having instructions thereon, the instructions when executed performing the method comprising:
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acquiring, from a remote resource over a network, connection data for a viewer to connect to a sender;
establishing a connection over the network between the sender and the viewer in response to the connection data; and
dynamically interfacing the viewer and the sender over the connection. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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