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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 19, 2009
John H. Shamilian, Tinton Falls, NJ (US);
Paul A. Sanitate, Lakewood, NJ (US);
John H. Shamilian, Tinton Falls, NJ (US);
Paul A. Sanitate, Lakewood, NJ (US);
Alcatel Lucent, Paris, FR;
Abstract
True collaborative interactive video streaming is advantageously achieved in accordance with certain illustrative embodiments of the present invention. A method and apparatus in accordance with one illustrative embodiment of the present invention enables a plurality of clients to concurrently view and interactively modify the playout of a video program—which may advantageously comprise either a stored (i.e., prerecorded) video program (e.g., a movie) or a real-time (i.e., live) video program—wherein the video program is being streamed from a video server to all of the clients synchronously (i.e., the same video is being played out concurrently to all clients). In accordance with this illustrative embodiment of the present invention, each of the plurality of clients is advantageously capable of transmitting control commands to the video server, and the video server responds to such control commands by appropriately modifying the video streaming process, but does so synchronously to all clients.