Methods and computer program products for distributing multimedia data over heterogeneous networks

摘要

Real-time communication of multimedia data (104,304) over heterogeneous networks (303) that may include constant delay networks (105,311), variable delay networks (106) that have a common reckoning of time (322), and variable delay networks that do not have a common reckoning of time (313). If there are any variable delay networks in which there is no common reckoning of time in the heterogeneous networks, a common reckoning of time is established in each of those networks. Then, a constant delay network (103) is emulated for each variable delay network using the specific common time reckoning present in each variable delay network.