System and computer program product for modulating the transmission frequency in a real time opinion research network
First Claim
1. A system for interchanging communications between a server and one or more clients over a computer network, comprising:
- a registering unit to maintain a current log of one or more clients having active sessions with the server; and
a transmission mode unit to generate a transmission schedule to instruct the clients to staggeredly interchange communications at the last transmission interval within a transmission period.
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Abstract
A computer-implemented transmission scheme is provided to control client-server interchanges within a distributed communications network, such as a real time opinion research system. Interchanges include transmitting media streams between one or more clients to a server over a network. Periodic interchanges can be simultaneously or staggeredly transmitted to a sampling pool of active clients. A transmission mode unit implements the transmission scheme. A parameter selector establishes the transmission interval and transmission period used to trigger each interchange. A client assignor creates one or more sampling classes from the sampling pool by applying a sampling quotient generated by the parameter selector. A schedule editor produces a transmission schedule for the active clients. If more than one sampling class has been created, each sampling class would receive a separate transmission schedule for providing staggered transmissions at designated transmission intervals. The transmission schedule can include other data preparation and formatting instructions for compression, aggregation and packetization.
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10 Claims
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1. A system for interchanging communications between a server and one or more clients over a computer network, comprising:
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a registering unit to maintain a current log of one or more clients having active sessions with the server; and
a transmission mode unit to generate a transmission schedule to instruct the clients to staggeredly interchange communications at the last transmission interval within a transmission period. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. A computer program product comprising a computer useable medium having computer readable program code means embedded in said medium for causing an application program to execute on a computer that interchanges communications with one or more clients over a computer network, said computer readable program code means comprising:
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a first computer readable program code means for causing the computer to maintain a current log of one or more clients having active sessions with the computer; and
a second computer readable program code means for causing the computer to generate a transmission schedule to instruct the clients to staggeredly interchange communications at the transmission interval within a transmission period. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10)
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