Patent ID: 7631119
Filing Date: 2009-12-08
Classification: G06F,G11B,H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method of handling to-be-communicated information, the method comprising: placing to-be-communicated information into each of a plurality of buffers for synchronized playback by a plurality of devices; wherein each device of the plurality of devices plays to-be-communicated information from a corresponding buffer of the plurality of buffers; determining where to place to-be-communicated information within a particular buffer of the plurality of buffers based, at least in part, on presentation latency between when a device of said plurality of devices that corresponds to a different buffer of the plurality of buffers reads data from said different buffer and when said device plays the to-be-communicated information; wherein the method of handling to-be-communicated information is performed by a computing device programmed to be a special purpose machine pursuant to instructions from program software.