Patent ID: 8149740
Filing Date: 2012-04-03
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for distributing information in a hierarchical communication network during an event, the method comprising: receiving a first information stream from a source by a parent first destination site comprising a first server connected to a first client device and connected to the source by a first connection; when at least one descendent second destination site comprising a second server connected to a second client device is connected to the parent first destination site in a second connection, transmitting a second information stream from the parent first destination site to the at least one descendent second destination site, wherein the first information stream is transmitted once between the source and the parent first destination site and the second information stream is transmitted once between the parent first destination site and at least one descendent second destination site, wherein the first client device connected to the first server of the parent first destination site is not the source and is connected only to the first server of the parent first destination site, and wherein the second client device connected to the second server of the descendant second destination site is connected only to the second server of the descendant second destination site.