公开(公告)号：US20140297811A1

公开(公告)日：2014-10-02

申请号：US14229036

申请日：2014-03-28

Applicant: BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY

Inventor： Timothy Sean STEVENS ,  Ian Christopher KEGEL

IPC: H04L29/06

CPC classification number: H04L65/60 ,  H04L45/22 ,  H04L65/4076

Abstract: Methods, apparatus and systems are disclosed for managing streamed communication (such as video, audio, or audio-visual communication) between client devices and remote devices via a digital data communication network in situations where the data communication network comprises one or more routers operable to receive streamed data from one or more client devices and/or from one or more other routers, and to forward such streamed data to one or more remote devices and/or to one or more other routers such as to enable the client device and potentially-varying subsets of the one or more remote devices to participate in a communication session.

Abstract translation: 公开的方法，装置和系统用于在数据通信网络包括一个或多个路由器可操作以在数据通信网络的情况下经由数字数据通信网络来管理客户端设备与远程设备之间的流式通信（例如视频，音频或视听通信） 从一个或多个客户端设备和/或来自一个或多个其他路由器接收流数据，并且将该流传输的数据转发到一个或多个远程设备和/或一个或多个其他路由器， 一个或多个远程设备的不同子集参与通信会话。