Patent ID: 7542485
Filing Date: 2009-06-02
Classification: G06F,H04J,H04L,H04Q

Abstract:
1. In a real time communications network, having a plurality of communication devices, which are connected together in a peer-to-peer relationship, a synchronization method, comprising; building a table of information about the communication devices; selecting one of the peer communication devices included in the table as a reference communications device, and all the communications devices utilizing a same technique for selecting the reference communications device; tracking the passage of time at the communications devices by advancing incrementally a local counter at each of the communications devices; storing data at one or more of the communications devices; associating a copy of the data at each communications device with the output of the local counter at the each communications device; comparing the output of the local counter with an output of a remote counter of a remote communications device when a predetermined event occurs; and notifying the each communications device, when the output of the counter of the remote device indicates that a more recent copy of the data resides at the remote communications device.