CDN-Supported Collaborative Media Streaming Control

Two big benefits of interactive collaborative
multimedia services are the
integration of media streaming with
interactive group-based collaboration,
as well as ease of service through the
Internet. Another new benefit in the arena of
Internet-based media service is cooperative playback
service. This service provides an explicitly
formed group of clients with cooperative viewing
and control of a shared remote media playback.1,2
In an effort to improve upon existing cooperative
playback services, we propose a collaborative
media on-demand platform, called Cooperative
Media On-Demand on the InterNet (Comodin).
This system efficiently provides collaborative playbacks
on the current Internet infrastructure. It's
the first distributed multimedia system that's
based on a Content Distribution Network and provides
interactive and collaborative multimedia services
to a synchronous group of clients.