Patent ID: 7827298

Claim:
A system for peer-to-web media broadcasting, comprising: a plurality of publisher computers, for storing publisher videos and images for broadcast over the Internet; a plurality of HTTP web client computers for viewing publisher videos and images broadcast over the Internet; a database management system that stores and retrieves information about said publisher computers and the videos and images that they broadcast, the database management system being accessible by said HTTP web client computers; a web server for transmitting content template pages to said HTTP web client computers, the content template pages comprising instructions for assembling the videos and images broadcast from one or more of said publisher computers; and at least one switchboard server, for transmitting a publisher video or image from a publisher computer to an HTTP web client computer, bypassing said web server, in response to a request from the HTTP web client computer for a publisher video or image linked to a content template page transmitted to the HTTP web client computer by said web server, and for managing TCP/IP connections between online publisher computers and HTTP web client computers, whereby the at least one switchboard server enables multiple videos and images from the same publisher computer to be transmitted to multiple web client computers at the same time.