Patent ID: 8601376
Filing Date: 2013-12-03
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: through a user interface, enabling each user of multiple users to specify or change information that is stored at a virtual connection location and that identifies multiple virtual connections and a first end and a second end associated with each of the virtual connections, each of the virtual connections being effected by updating a state at the second end in accordance with an updated state of a first device that is associated with the first end and is received at the virtual connection location, each of at least some of the updated states of the first devices comprising a level within a range, each of at least some of the states being updated no faster than once a second, the updated state at the second end being made available from the virtual connection location for use in controlling a second device associated with the second end, based on the updated state at the second end.