Method and system for coordinating media and messaging operations in an information processing system
First Claim
1. A method for coordinating a plurality of communications in a plurality of media in an information processing system, comprising:
- communicating between a user node and each of a plurality of media servers directly and not through other of said media servers, wherein each of the media servers communicates in a different one of the plurality of the media; and
in response to control communications between one of the media servers and the user node, the one media server controlling the communicating between the user node and the plurality of the media servers to coordinate presentation of communications in the plurality of the media at the user node.
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Abstract
A method and system for coordinating media and messaging operations in an information processing system includes the ability for streaming media and messages in an information processing system from a switching mechanism to a plurality of user nodes. The invention receives a plurality of unsynchronized media and messages from said plurality of user nodes in a synchronizer. Instructions of the present invention further control the streaming of media and messages from said switching mechanism to said plurality of user nodes using said synchronizer. Streaming media may include, for example, chat, audio and video elements, video conference transmissions, teleconference transmissions, and combinations of such media elements.
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1. A method for coordinating a plurality of communications in a plurality of media in an information processing system, comprising:
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communicating between a user node and each of a plurality of media servers directly and not through other of said media servers, wherein each of the media servers communicates in a different one of the plurality of the media; and in response to control communications between one of the media servers and the user node, the one media server controlling the communicating between the user node and the plurality of the media servers to coordinate presentation of communications in the plurality of the media at the user node. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A system for coordinating a plurality of communications in a plurality of media in an information processing system, comprising:
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a plurality of media servers each for communicating in a different one of the plurality of the media with a user node directly and not through another of said media servers; and one of the media servers being responsive to control communications between the one media server and the user node for controlling the communicating between the user node and the plurality of the media servers to coordinate presentation of communications in the plurality of the media at the user node. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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31. An interface for coordinating a plurality of communications in a plurality of media at a user node of an information processing system, comprising:
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a plurality of clients in the user node, each for communicating in a different one of a plurality of media with a corresponding one of a plurality of media servers directly and not through another of said media servers, and for presenting communications in the plurality of the media at the user node; and one of the clients passing control communications with its corresponding media server for causing the corresponding media server to control the communicating between the plurality of the clients and the plurality of the media servers to coordinate the presenting of the communications in the plurality of the media by the plurality of the clients at the user node. - View Dependent Claims (32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42)
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