A COLLABORATION AGENT BASED SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE TO SUPPORT COLLABORATIVE MULTIMEDIA APPLICATIONS OVER WIRELESS NETWORKS

摘要

In one embodiment, a method of sending data from a first node participating in a session of a collaborative application via a wireless network to a plurality of second nodes participating in the session of the collaborative application via a wired network includes generating a plurality of data streams corresponding to the plurality of second nodes at the first node, reducing the plurality of data streams to a single stream from among the plurality of data streams, and sending the single data stream to a collaboration agent associated with the first node and connected to the wired network. In another embodiment instances of the collaborative application are run at both the first node and the collaboration agent. In yet another embodiment, an instance of the collaborative application is run only at the collaboration agent which is connected to the first node via a bi¬ directional windows sharing link.