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Method system and article of manufacture for multi-casting audio visual material

  • US 5,862,329 A
  • Filed: 04/18/1996
  • Issued: 01/19/1999
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/18/1996
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An article of manufacture comprising a computer useable medium having a computer readable program embodied in said medium, wherein the computer readable program when executed on a multi-cast server causes the multi-cast server to:

  • set up a point to multi-point connection between a multi-cast server and a plurality of clients, said point to multi-point connection capable of transmitting an AVM stream from the multi-cast server to each of the plurality of clients;

    receive a default AVM stream from a single one of the plurality of clients;

    dynamically accept a point-to-point connection from any single other one of the plurality of clients;

    receive an AVM stream originating with the single other one of the plurality of clients via the dynamically accepted point-to-point connection;

    select either the default AVM stream or the AVM stream originating with the single other one of the plurality of clients over the dynamically accepted point-to-point connection; and

    ,multi-cast the selected AVM stream wherein the source of the selected AVM stream is the default AVM stream unless the AVM stream is received from the dynamically accepted point-to-point connection.

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