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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2003
Filed:
May. 17, 2000
Shmuel Shaffer, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Charles J. Bedard, Saratoga, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and system for maintaining a data collaboration conference. In one embodiment, a method includes but is not limited to monitoring for a presence of a first general conference controller having top provider status, and promoting at least a second general conference controller one level in status hierarchy in response to the monitoring indicating that the first general conference controller is no longer viable. In one embodiment, hardware and software are utilized to effect the foregoing described method. In one embodiment, a method includes but is not limited to monitoring for the presence of a first general conference controller having top provider status; promoting at least a second general conference controller one level in status hierarchy in response to the monitoring indicating that the first general conference controller is no longer viable; and directing that the second general conference controller assume to provider status, in response to a determination that the second general conference controller has been promoted to top provider status. In one embodiment, hardware and software are utilized to effect the foregoing described method.