Television – Special applications – Manufacturing
Patent
1992-05-15
1994-12-06
Groody, James J.
Television
Special applications
Manufacturing
348 13, 455 42, H04N 7173
Patent
active
053715322
ABSTRACT:
A store-and-forward architecture which stores and distributes information programs to subscribers on demand includes: information warehouses which archive information programs from multiple service vendors and dispense information programs in segments to central offices in high speed bursts; central offices which manages subscriber's request for service and buffers segments of information programs for delivery to subscribers in real-time under the subscriber's interactive control; and customer premises equipment where a subscriber's requests and control signals for interactive play-out of information program are generated and information programs are received for the subscriber's use.
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Gelman Alexander
Kobrinski Haim
Smoot Lanny S.
Weinstein Stephen B.
Bell Communications Research Inc.
Groody James J.
Harvey David E.
Suchyta Leonard Charles
Yeadon Loria B.
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