MULTIMEDIA ENVIRONMENT FOR REAL-TIME COLLABORATIVE E-BUSINESS

摘要

In distributed applications such as teleconferences, a group of multiple processes are cooperating, where messages exchanged among the processes are required to be causally delivered. The processes are exchanging kinds of multimedia objects in addition to traditional text data. We present multimedia infrastructure that integrates continuous real-time media streams within the WWW. B2B real-time collaborative applications require participants to exchange real-time audio and video information over a communication network. This flow of information must preserve the causal dependency. We discuss a protocol to causally deliver multimedia objects in a group of multiple processes. We believe that the presented infrastructure will offer new opportunities for Web services.