System for Collaborative Conferencing Using Streaming Interactive Video

A computer-implemented method of operation for a hosting service system comprising one or more hosting service centers that include a plurality of servers executing one or more twitch video games or real-time applications, the servers generating one or more streams of uncompressed streaming interactive video therefrom, the computer-implemented method comprising:

• receiving, at a particular hosting service center, a communication over a network from a client device, the communication including a request to play a selected twitch video game or real-time application, the client device being associated with a user and located geographically remote to the particular hosting service center;
• executing, at the particular hosting service center, the selected twitch video game or real-time application on one or more of the servers, thereby generating an uncompressed streaming interactive video stream;
• compressing, at the particular hosting service center, the uncompressed streaming interactive video stream, thereby producing a compressed streaming interactive video stream;
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• transmitting the compressed streaming interactive video stream to the client device over a packetized network, the compressed streaming interactive video stream being compressed with a worst-case, round-trip latency of 90 ms, from a user control input to display of a response to the user control input on the client device of the user, over a transmission distance of up to 1500 miles.

A computer-implemented method of operation for a hosting service center comprising:

• receiving, at a particular hosting service center, a communication over a network from a client device, the communication including a request to play a selected twitch video game or real-time application, the client device being associated with a user and located geographically remote to the particular hosting service center;
• running, on one or more servers of the hosting service center, a twitch video game or real-time application, thereby generating an uncompressed streaming interactive video stream;
• compressing, at the hosting service center, the uncompressed streaming interactive video stream, thereby producing a compressed streaming interactive video stream;
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• transmitting the compressed streaming interactive video stream to the client device over a packetized network, the client device being located geographically remote to the hosting service center, the compressed streaming interactive video stream being compressed with a worst-case, round-trip latency of 90 ms, from a user control input on the client device to display of a response to the user control input on the client device, over a transmission distance of up to 1500 miles.