Patent ID: 11943132
Assignee: INSTANTSHARE TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 20:
21. The method of claim 16, wherein the establishing of the group further comprises:
in response to initiating or receiving, by the individual member, a request for synchronizing respective local lists of group members among the members, performing, by the individual member:
multicasting the local list of group members to all members listed in the local list of group members except the individual member;
receiving one or more local lists of group members from any member in the group other than the individual member;
augmenting the local list of group members with the received one or more local lists of group members to form a plurality of collected local lists of group members;
determining a most-recent local list of group members having a latest timestamp of last update in the plurality of collected local lists of group members; and
updating the local list of group members of the individual member with the most-recent local list of group members, whereby the individual member is allowed to update the local list of group members without a need to access the Internet.