Stephen Blum

To distribute messages to subscribers that are located in multiple regions, a data center will receive messages that to be published to the subscribers. For each message, the data center will determine a channel on which the message is to be published. For any given channel, the data center will then perform a limited replication process to other data centers in other regions by accessing an interest map indicating additional data centers at which subscribers to the channel have recently… Show more

To distribute messages to subscribers that are located in multiple regions, a data center will receive messages that to be published to the subscribers. For each message, the data center will determine a channel on which the message is to be published. For any given channel, the data center will then perform a limited replication process to other data centers in other regions by accessing an interest map indicating additional data centers at which subscribers to the channel have recently expressed interest. The data center will transmit the messages that are associated with the channel to only that group of additional data centers for replication but not to other data centers at which no interest has been recently expressed. Show less

Data traversing a network is vulnerable to manipulation in a variety of ways. For example, attackers may decrypt and exploit the data. In another example, governments and/or Internet Service Providers may throttle the bandwidth of a network, thereby reducing the speed at which the data traverses the Internet. This patent covers a method which determines latency by provider segmentation and locality segmentation.

A message distribution system replicates a collection of messages across multiple regional data centers. When any of the data centers receives a message for distribution from an authorized publisher, it transmits the message to each of the other data centers so that the collection of messages is immediately replicated among each data center. When any data center determines that a subscriber is connected to it, that data center determines which messages in the data collection the subscriber is… Show more

A message distribution system replicates a collection of messages across multiple regional data centers. When any of the data centers receives a message for distribution from an authorized publisher, it transmits the message to each of the other data centers so that the collection of messages is immediately replicated among each data center. When any data center determines that a subscriber is connected to it, that data center determines which messages in the data collection the subscriber is authorized to receive, and it automatically sends those messages to the subscriber. Show less

A message distribution system replicates a collection of messages across multiple regional data centers. When any of the data centers receives a message for distribution from an authorized publisher, it transmits the message to each of the other data centers so that the collection of messages is immediately replicated among each data center. When any data center determines that a subscriber is connected to it, that data center determines which messages in the data collection the subscriber is… Show more

A message distribution system replicates a collection of messages across multiple regional data centers. When any of the data centers receives a message for distribution from an authorized publisher, it transmits the message to each of the other data centers so that the collection of messages is immediately replicated among each data center. When any data center determines that a subscriber is connected to it, that data center determines which messages in the data collection the subscriber is authorized to receive, and it automatically sends those messages to the subscriber. Show less

A system synchronizes data across multiple data centers to geographically distributed clients may receive current versions of the objects (or portions of objects) from whatever data center is closest to the client. When one of the data centers receives an application object from a first client, it may save the application object in a data collection at that data center. It may also send the application object to other data centers so that the application object is replicated among each of the… Show more

A system synchronizes data across multiple data centers to geographically distributed clients may receive current versions of the objects (or portions of objects) from whatever data center is closest to the client. When one of the data centers receives an application object from a first client, it may save the application object in a data collection at that data center. It may also send the application object to other data centers so that the application object is replicated among each of the other data centers. Each of the data centers will relay the updates to the other data centers subscribing clients via various channels, while at least some of the data centers will make the updates available to clients who request the updates. Optionally, the data centers also may publish change notification messages to the channels. Show less

The invention relates to a system and method for a computer game and social experience that captures people's emotions at specific moments during a live or pre-recorded event.