公开(公告)号：US20050198141A1

公开(公告)日：2005-09-08

申请号：US11051846

申请日：2005-02-04

申请人： Min Zhu ,  Xuan Zhang

发明人： Min Zhu ,  Xuan Zhang

IPC分类号： G06Q10/10 ,  H04L12/18 ,  H04L29/06 ,  G06F15/16

CPC分类号： H04L12/1827 ,  G06Q10/10 ,  H04L63/0428

摘要： A distributed collaborative computer system is provided that comprises a plurality of server computers interconnected via a high-speed link. Client computers can connect to any available server computer and start or join a conference hosted on either the server computer to which the client computer is connected or any other server in the system. As a result, the system and method of the present invention is easily scalable to support an arbitrary number of participants to a conference by merely adding the appropriate number of server computers to the system. In addition, by replicating the conference information on more than one server computer, the single point of failure limitation is eliminated. In fact, if a server hosting or participating in a conference malfunctions, the failure is detected by other server computers and the client computer is able to reconnect to the conference through a new server computer.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种分布式协同计算机系统，其包括通过高速链路互连的多个服务器计算机。 客户端计算机可以连接到任何可用的服务器计算机，并启动或加入在与客户端计算机连接的服务器计算机或系统中的任何其他服务器上托管的会议。 结果，本发明的系统和方法可以容易地扩展，以通过仅仅将适当数量的服务器计算机添加到系统来支持会议的任意数量的参与者。 另外，通过在多台服务器计算机上复制会议信息，消除了单点故障限制。 事实上，如果托管或参与会议的服务器发生故障，则其他服务器计算机检测到故障，客户端计算机能够通过新的服务器计算机重新连接到会议。