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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 10, 2014
Filed:
May. 23, 2002
Joseph Thomas O'neil, Staten Island, NY (US);
Joseph Thomas O'Neil, Staten Island, NY (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
An architecture and system allows for collaborative control and viewing of like multimedia content that is loaded in a number of distributed network-based appliances. A collaboration server in the data network is used to store and retrieve information regarding each collaboration session and serves as a clearing house to forward control commands ('play', 'pause', etc.) from one participant to the other participants during a session. The arrangement is particularly well-suited to a distance learning environment, where an instructor may be given “override” commands to control the various events in the collaboration session.