Mulitcast videoconferencing
AssigneeSupraComm, Inc.
InventorNeil Rideout
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Abstract
In one embodiment, the invention is a method of transferring data. The method includes receiving a first video data stream at a first machine. The method also includes multicasting the first video data stream in uncompressed and raw form through a network. The method further includes receiving the first video data stream at a second machine. The method also includes playing the first video data stream on the second machine.
Claims20
A machine-readable medium having embodied therein instructions, which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform a method for multicasting video data through a network using rich media email response (RMER), the method comprising:
- generating a data stream by converting an email message having video data using a multicast graphics language without using compression;
- multicasting the email message by sending the data stream converted from the email message to a client via SMTP;
- and
- converting the data stream at the client back to the email message.
A system for multicasting video data through a network using rich media email response (RMER), the system comprising:
- means for, generating a data stream by converting an email message having video data using a multicast graphics language without using compression;
- means for, multicasting the email message by sending the data stream converted from the email message to a client via SMTP;
- and
- means for, converting the data stream at the client back to the email message.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.