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Video application server

Patent 5550982 Issued on August 27, 1996. Estimated Expiration Date: Icon_subject August 27, 2013. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Patent #: 5262875
Issued on: 11/16/1993
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Patent #: 5361261
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Flexible scheme for admission control of multimedia streams on integrated networks
Patent #: 5408465
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Inventors

Assignee

Application

No. 082227 filed on 06/24/1993

US Classes:

725/93, Control process719/330, REMOTE PROCEDURE CALL (RPC)725/115, Data storage or retrieval725/116Control process

Examiners

Primary: Ellis, Richard L.

Attorney, Agent or Firm

International Class

G06F 013/42

Abstract

A local area network for supporting video applications comprises a transmission medium, one or more data file servers connected to the transmission medium for supporting data applications in the local area network, a dedicated video server for supporting video applications in the local area network and one or more clients connected to the local area network. The server includes software for managing multiple simultaneous video streams transmitted across the LAN. The client includes software for accessing the dedicated video server across the LAN to transmit video to the server or receive video from the server.

Other References

  • "Starworks™--A Video Application Server", Fouad A. Tobagi, Joseph Pang, Starlight Networks, Inc., Mountain View, California 94041, Compcon '93, San Francisco, Feb. 22-25, 1993
  • "Starworks™--Video Application Server Software", Fouad Tobagi, Starlight Networks, Inc., Mountain View, California 94041, Compcon '93, Feb. 23, 199
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