[p2prg] Peer-to-Peer Multimedia Answering Machine Technology

[Adam Sobieski <[e-mail]>]

Internet Research Task Force,
Peer-to-Peer Research Group,

Greetings.  WebRTC is a contemporary technology and pertains to video calls, conferences, and potentially to video forums.  WebRTC does include P2P technologies and I would like to describe a scenario with regard to the P2P distributed storage of hypertext, audio and video messages, with features and functionality facilitating P2P multimedia answering machine technology.
 
Scenario:

Person A calls Person B. Person A might know whether Person B was online or offline before they commenced a communication activity. If Person B is online, the data motion is as per WebRTC. If Person B is offline, they could have an answering machine multimedia clip available on a group of nodes which they have designated, for example per a social network graph.

Person A can watch Person B's streaming answering machine clip or skip to leaving a message. If Person A leaves a message, that streaming video message is stored on a group of nodes, possibly the union of the two groups of nodes designated by both Person A and Person B. When Person B comes online, within a system-specific duration of time, e.g. 90 days or 1 year, the portions of data are downloaded by them, segmented downloading, and possibly with something like a BITS 4.0+ technology.

If Person B chooses to view any of the streamable media during that initial phase, which might not be uncommon, a log on and check messages pattern, the segmented downloading can toggle to a streaming variety of download, including variable bitrate streaming. Even after Person B might watch real-time segmented downloads of variable-bitrate streaming multimedia, the entirety of their high-bitrate messages could be downloaded and stored by Person B unless or until Person B indicated otherwise.


Video calling and video conferencing have been illustrated with WebRTC technologies, video forums may be realized upcoming, and we can envision, research and develop features for P2P video communication systems, P2P hypertext, audio and video systems, multimedia systems, including P2P answering machine technologies as described.


 
Kind regards,

Adam Sobieski