Serverless peer-to-peer multi-party real-time audio communication system and method

A computer-implemented process for conducting a multi-party real-time audio communication session between peer nodes in a peer-to-peer computer network, each of the peer nodes having an audio stream, comprising:

• a packet splitting step for splitting the audio stream from each of the peer nodes into audio packets;
• an audio mixing step for combining audio packets from a certain time from each of the peer nodes to generate a mixed audio packet at that time;
• and
• a rotation step for rotating audio mixing of mixed audio packets and redelivery of the mixed audio packets on a packet-by-packet basis among each of the peer nodes, such that at least some of the peer nodes have a turn performing audio mixing and redelivery.

A peer-to-peer audio communication system for engaging in a multi-party real-time audio communication session between peer nodes in a peer-to-peer network, comprising:

• an audio packet module that divides an input audio stream having audio content into a plurality of audio frames;
• an audio mixer that performs mixing of the audio frames from each of the peer nodes at a particular frame to produce a mixed audio packet at each of the plurality of audio frames;
• a round robin processing technique that rotates audio mixing and redelivery of the mixed audio content one at a time on a frame-by-frame basis to each of the peer nodes in a round robin manner;
• and
• an audio decoder that decodes the redelivered mixed audio content to obtain audio for the audio communication session.