| 摘要 |
A system and method for multicasting data over a network includes a director, a hierarchy of participant managers, and a turnstile installed at each participant to which the data is multicasted. Content providers provide information associated with an event to the director. The director overseas the delivery of the event to a participant. In particular, the director allocates and provides a ticket to the event to the participant. The participant acquires the ticket, either directly or indirectly from the director. When the participant attempts to access the event, the locally installed turnstile authenticates the ticket thereby gating access to the event. The turnstile also provides delivery statistics associated with the delivery of the event to the director via the hierarchy of participant managers. |
