Patent ID: 6618752
Filing Date: 2003-09-09
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
A method for multicasting comprising the steps of:receiving a first request to receive a multicast data stream from a first client application running on a first computer by a supervisory server application running on a supervisory server computer; transmitting a first instance of a portable deployable child host to the first client computer; establishing a connection between a the first portable deployable child host and a data source application; transmitting a multicast data stream by the data source application to the child host on the first client computer; receiving a second request to receive the multicast data stream from a second client application running on a second computer by the supervisory server application running on the supervisory server computer; transmitting a second instance of the portable deployable child host to the second computer; establishing a connection between the first instance of the portable deployable child host and the second instance of the portable deployable child host; and transmitting the multicast data stream from the first portable deployable child host to the second portable deployable child host.