Patent ID: 7200766

Claim:
A method for synchronizing at least two users, each of the users to be synchronized having a respective individual timer, the users being connected by at least one communications link, at least one event being transmitted for synchronization over the communications link, the method comprising the steps of: determining, by a first user, a first view of a global time as a function of the at least one event; determining, by a second user, a second view of the global time as function of the at least one event; transmitting, by the first user and the second user, the first view of the global time and the second view of the global time over the communications link; determining, by each of the first user and the second user, an overall global time using a mixture of the first view of the global time and the second view of the global time; synchronizing, by each of the first user and the second user, the respective individual timer using the determined overall global time; predefining a shape; determining a correction quantity using the predefined shape and a shape of an overall global time curve; and approximating a new shape of at least one of a first global time curve and a second global time curve using the correction quantity.