摘要 |
A method data conferencing system, and storage medium for arbitrating among requests for services affecting objects of a distributed data conference supported by the data conferencing system, the requests for services originating from a plurality of nodes of the data conferencing system. According to a preferred embodiment, a hierarchical conference object structure has objects at a plurality of levels, wherein a distributed data manager object exists at a first level of the conference and at least one public object store exists at a second level of the conference, wherein the distributed data manager object is for containing the at least one public object store and the public object store is for containing at least one object at a third level of the conference. A first arbiter object arbitrates requests that affect objects at the second level. A second arbiter object arbitrates requests that affect the at least one object at the third level that are contained by the at least one public object store.
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