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.