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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5917538 | Data Transmission apparatus of video-on-demand or near video-on-demand system A data transmission apparatus suitable for use in a VOD system which can send program data in response to requests made at any time. In the data transmission apparatus of the present invention, a series of data is read from a mass storage at a high speed ... | 06/29/1999 |
| 5880792 | Command and control architecture for a digital studio A studio class directory structure, for example, in a computer-readable media. The directory structure has a gateway service interface as a root directory, a devices class directory, coupled to said root directory, a servers class directory, coupled to sa... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5870551 | Lookahead buffer replacement method using ratio of clients access order offsets and buffer data block offsets Two methods are disclosed for storing multimedia data that reduces the amount of disk I/O required by the system and cache misses experienced by the system. The first method determines the future access of each data buffer in a cache memory. Once the futu... | 02/09/1999 |
| 5848239 | Variable-speed communication and reproduction system A variable-speed communication and reproduction system consists of a server and a client device, and comprises a variable-speed data supplier for supplying a requested data set at a play speed specified by the user. The variable-speed data supplier includ... | 12/08/1998 |
| 5815662 | Predictive memory caching for media-on-demand systems A media-on-demand system employs predictive memory caching for a media server and associated data storage device to meet requests from multiple clients for media programs stored on the data storage device. The system allocates a plurality of sections of t... | 09/29/1998 |
| 5815146 | Video on demand system with multiple data sources configured to provide VCR-like services A video server for providing Video-On-Demand is disclosed. A plurality of data sources are coupled individually to a first and second bi-directional data/instruction switch. The first switch is additionally coupled to a data storage system and the second ... | 09/29/1998 |
| 5809239 | Load balancing in servers by allocating buffer to streams with successively larger buffer requirements until the buffer requirements of a stream can not be satisfied A video server is provided with buffer manager which balances the loads on the various "movie storage" elements of a video server by preferentially buffering streams on highly loaded storage elements. The allocation of buffer takes place only when the sto... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5805975 | Satellite broadcast receiving and distribution system The present invention provides a satellite broadcast receiving and distribution system that will permit for the transmission of vertical and horizontal or left-hand circular and right-hand circular polarization signals simultaneously via a single coaxial ... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5787472 | Disk caching system for selectively providing interval caching or segment caching of vided data A system and method for caching sequential data streams in a cache storage device. For each information stream, a determination is made as to whether its data blocks should discarded from cache as they are read by a consuming process. Responsive to a dete... | 07/28/1998 |
| 5764893 | Video-on-demand system uses adjusting positions of slots in a slot table to address additional image data distribution request from terminal devices A video-on-demand system divides compressed image data of a video program into image data sections with a predetermined length and stores them in one of a series of storage media in order of reproduction, returning to a first storage medium in the series ... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5761417 | Video data streamer having scheduler for scheduling read request for individual data buffers associated with output ports of communication node to one storage node A media streamer (10) includes at least one storage node (16, 17) comprising mass storage for storing a digital representation of at least one video presentation; and a plurality of communication nodes (14) each having at least one input port that is coup... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5751883 | Multimedia direct access storage device and formatting method A multimedia direct access storage device and a method for transferring source program signals representative of a compressed digital multimedia program to and from the direct access storage device are disclosed. A multimedia program is transmitted from a... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5720037 | Multimedia on-demand server A multimedia on-demand server including a randomly accessible library of multimedia programs (such as movies stored on magnetic or optical disks), a limited amount of RAM to buffer and store selected portions of programs retrieved from the library, and an... | 02/17/1998 |
| 5712906 | Communications systems supporting shared multimedia session A public switched telephone network for providing information from a multimedia information server to any one of a plurality of subscriber premises, comprises a central office receiving multimedia information signals from a multimedia information server a... | 01/27/1998 |
| 5701582 | Method and apparatus for efficient transmissions of programs A system and method of optimizing transmission of a program to multiple users over a distribution system, with particular application to video-on-demand for a CATV network. The system includes, at a head end of the CATV network a scheduling and routing co... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5699362 | System and method for direct output of constant rate high bandwidth packets streams from long term memory devices An apparatus that retrieves data from a plurality of long-term memory devices and delivers the data to a packet network over a plurality of channels, wherein each of the channels has a specific bandwidth requirement. The apparatus comprises a storage devi... | 12/16/1997 |
| 5689299 | Picture distribution method and device comprising copying of picture information from a first file to plural second files In a picture distribution method and device, a picture supply device is connected to a network and serves to supply prescribed picture sources to plural subscriber terminals through the network. The picture sources can be supplied to any subscriber termin... | 11/18/1997 |
| 5664046 | Autoconfigurable video system A video system and method comprising an automatic configuration with a viewer's video content preferences, and the automatic selection of video segments from a plurality of video segments responsive to an application of the viewer's video content preferen... | 09/02/1997 |
| 5652916 | Prestaging method, buffer management method and file system A prestaging method is adapted to a computer system comprising a central processing unit, a buffer and a secondary storage, where the prestaging method reads input data of a submitted job into the buffer from the secondary storage before executing the sub... | 07/29/1997 |
| 5652627 | System and method for reducing jitter in a packet-based transmission network A system and method for use in a video transmission network that regulates the timing of both the video signal and the audio signal regardless of the transport mechanism used to deliver the digitized audio and video signals from the source to a set top bo... | 07/29/1997 |
| 5610841 | Video server A video server in which each media segment file sever (MSFS) stores media segment files (MSFs) forming video data, and sequence control brokers (SCBs) installed between the video server and subscribers terminals receive video requests from the subscriber ... | 03/11/1997 |
| 5604682 | Information service control point which retrieves information as blocks of data and outputs the retrieved data via a communications link Various methods and associated apparatuses are provided for communicating data from a central station to a remote station over some form of communications path. The data, which together form at least one title, are stored on at least one storage device. T... | 02/18/1997 |
| 5594924 | Multiple user multimedia data server with switch to load time interval interleaved data to plurality of time interval assigned buffers A disk drive stores multimedia data in long spiral data tracks. The tracks on opposite surfaces of the disk spiral in opposite directions, so that a track on one surface can be read as the actuator sweeps in, and a track on the opposite surface can be rea... | 01/14/1997 |
| 5592612 | Method and apparatus for supplying data streams A sewer system for storing and supplying data to a destination. The server system includes a plurality of disk drives for storing data, a buffer memory for temporarily storing a portion of the data from the disk drives which is soon to be supplied, a reco... | 01/07/1997 |
| 5587743 | Signal processors for transparent and simultaneous transmission and reception of a data signal in a video signal Signal processors for permitting the transparent, simultaneous transmission and reception of a data signal in the video bandwidth is disclosed. The signal processor in the transmitter rasterizes the data at the horizontal scanning rate and modulates the d... | 12/24/1996 |
| 5586264 | Video optimized media streamer with cache management A data storage system includes a mass storage unit storing a data entity, such as a digital representation of a video presentation, that is partitioned into a plurality N of temporally-ordered segments. A data buffer is bidirectionally coupled to the mass... | 12/17/1996 |
| 5583994 | System for efficient delivery of multimedia information using hierarchical network of servers selectively caching program for a selected time period A multimedia information delivery network system is disclosed for delivering multimedia programs to a plurality of users at user-selected times. The network includes a wide area transmitter for transmitting the multimedia programs. Additionally, the netwo... | 12/10/1996 |
| 5557724 | User interface, method, and apparatus selecting and playing channels having video, audio, and/or text streams A user interface is displayed on a computer system capable of processing one or more data streams. The user interface has one or more displayed representations, where each of the displayed representations corresponds to one of the data streams. A user of ... | 09/17/1996 |
| 5535209 | Method and apparatus for transporting timed program data using single transport schedule In an interactive video-on-demand system, real-time programs are encoded as a transport stream including a plurality of transport stream packets. Some of the transport stream packets include timing signals indicating the real time of the program. The tran... | 07/09/1996 |
| 5442389 | Program server for interactive television system The invention relates to a system for transmitting stored programs, such as movies and musical works, to customers via a distribution network, such as a cable television system. The programs are stored in compressed form in a program library, such as a ta... | 08/15/1995 |
| 5341474 | Communications architecture and buffer for distributing information services A store-and-forward architecture which stores and distributes information programs to subscribers includes: information warehouses which archive information programs and dispense information programs in segments to central offices in bursts; central offic... | 08/23/1994 |
| 5313297 | System for providing pictures responding to users' remote control A system for providing pictures responding to users' remote control is an system for providing digital picture signals of respective programs specified by operation signals from external communication lines. The system comprises a line control equipment f... | 05/17/1994 |
| 4499568 | Process for the teledistribution of recorded information and a system for performing this process A process and system for vending recorded information, wherein a recording of information is carried out at a faster speed than normal. Calls from subscribers are received and a message is formed consisting of a preamble constituted by an addressing code ... | 02/12/1985 |
| 4028733 | Pictorial information retrieval system A system for retrievably providing a video display of a pictorial information message on a video display device from video information stored, such as on a video tape, in a plurality of frames, unique pictorial information being stored in each frame for d... | 06/07/1977 |
