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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2009
Filed:
Jul. 03, 2006
Min Zhu, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Jian Shen, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Steven LI, San Jose, CA (US);
Guanghong Yang, Mountain View, CA (US);
Bin Zhao, San Jose, CA (US);
Shi Yan, Fremont, CA (US);
Zheng Yuan, Fremont, CA (US);
Min Zhu, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Jian Shen, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Steven Li, San Jose, CA (US);
Guanghong Yang, Mountain View, CA (US);
Bin Zhao, San Jose, CA (US);
Shi Yan, Fremont, CA (US);
Zheng Yuan, Fremont, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A distributed collaborative computer system is provided that comprises a plurality of server computers interconnected via a high-speed link. Client computers can connect to any available server computer and start or join a conference hosted on either the server computer to which the client computer is connected or any other server in the system. As a result, the system and method of the present invention is easily scalable to support an arbitrary number of participants to a conference by merely adding the appropriate number of server computers to the system. In addition, by replicating the conference information on more than one server computer, the single point of failure limitation is eliminated. In fact, if a server hosting or participating in a conference malfunctions, the failure is detected by other server computers and the client computer is able to reconnect to the conference through a new server computer.