Patent ID: 7680885
Filing Date: 2010-03-16
Classification: G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A bandwidth-adaptive method for synchronizing consumer node representations of a dynamic data set and a source node representation of the dynamic data set, the method comprising the steps of: (a) receiving, at a communications service from a source node, a metadata packet identifying a plurality of data packets that represent a state of at least a portion of a changing data set at a point in time; (b) receiving, at the communications service from the source node, at least one of the identified data packets; (c) selecting first and second sets of the identified data packets responsive to the received metadata packet, the first and second sets being different from one another; (d) transmitting, from the communications service to a first consumer node, the metadata packet and the first set of identified data packets for synchronization of a first dynamic data set represented at the first consumer node with the state of the changing data set represented at the source node at the point in time; and (e) transmitting, from the communications service to a second consumer node having a different bandwidth connection with the communications service than the first consumer node has with the communications service, the metadata packet and the second set of identified data packets for synchronization of a second dynamic data set represented at the second consumer node with the state of the changing data set represented at the source node at the point in time.