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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 1999
Filed:
Aug. 16, 1996
Benjamin W Sharpe, Seattle, WA (US);
Nathan W Dwyer, Seattle, WA (US);
Starwave Corporation, Bellevue, WA (US);
Abstract
A diversified processing system and associated method are disclosed for updating at least one remote computer platform with an action occurring on a local computer platform. The disclosed system and method minimizes the amount of locally generated information that needs to be transferred across a network so as to maintain on a remote computer platform a copy of what has occurred locally. To minimize the information sent between platforms, each platform may contain items, referred to as instances, which respond to various types of commands. The types of instances include master, proxy, and free instances. Master instances and proxy instances relate to the same item located on different platforms. Each master instance keeps its related proxy instances current with its status by transmitting its changes between platforms to its related proxy instances. Free instances respond to changes occurring preferably on a single platform. By minimizing the amount of information that needs to be transmitted between platforms, the bandwidth consumed to update various platforms is reduced.