System and Method for Providing a Virtual Environment with Shared Video on Demand

Abstract

A system and methodology for creating, compiling, managing and distributing works of multimedia within a virtual space (environment) or virtual meeting space. The system consists of a server and client architecture. Within this architecture, the server or controller plays a “master” role, pulling, storing, and delivering media content from a plurality of client sources. The master server or controller manipulates the storage and delivery of these streams through an intelligent database and programming architecture. These streams are encoded to a specific format and delivered through a server to single or multiple recipients as a vital component of a complete virtual meeting experience. The result is a complete and organized virtual meeting room experience from attendee invitation though follow-up and record meeting dispersal.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A system for providing a centralized peer-to-peer virtual environment in which a plurality of participants may view video, comprising:
 a plurality of secondary remote client devices, capable of creating a transient shared object for each of the plurality of secondary remote client devices in response to a creation of a first shared object, the plurality of transient shared objects being stored in the random access memory of the remote client devices and being deleted after a communication including the plurality of secondary remote client devices has ended; and   an operations server networked to the plurality of secondary remote client devices, the operator server capable of managing communications between the transient shared objects for each of the plurality of secondary remote client devices, wherein the operations server is capable of receiving input to update the transient shared objects and transmitting instructions to update the plurality of transient shared objects for each of the plurality of secondary client devices.   
     
     
         2 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the instructions transmitted from the operations server updates a first transient shared object of a first secondary remote client device and the first secondary remote client device instructions to a second secondary remote client device to update a second shared transient shared object of the second secondary remote client device. 
     
     
         3 . The system of  claim 1 , the operations server further being configured to provide a video chat feature viewable at the plurality of secondary remote client devices. 
     
     
         4 . The system of  claim 1 , the operations server further being configured to provide a text chat feature viewable at the plurality of secondary remote client devices.