Real-time

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See also: Status | Performance

Real-time relates to the time or status of something that is designed to perform or function for a preset amount of time. Computer hardware and software act in real-time when they collect or distribute data as it is processed, without lag. There are many examples of real-time activity, related to iA, including:

• audio synthesis, equalization, recording, etc
• broadcast telemetry, video and other communications
• credit card processing, ATM and EFTPOS transactions
• Flash Mobs
• Internet Telephony
• program operation, batch processing, metadata generation, multi-tasking, etc
• MIDI
• Router and modems

Wikis, weblogs, email and RSS are developing into real-time applications.

Related Topics

• Authentication
• Latency
• Ping
• On-the-fly
• Traffic analysis
• Verification

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