Telecommunications – Interference signal transmission
Patent
1995-06-15
1997-10-28
Peng, John K.
Telecommunications
Interference signal transmission
348 7, 348 10, H04N 710
Patent
active
056825978
ABSTRACT:
A system and method for Video-on-Demand (VOD) satisfying the desire of `surfers`. The process entails a server operating in a standard NVOD mode, whereby it continuously sends multiple copies of each program on separate channels. Each copy is delayed by a staggered time interval. The invention provides a way to fulfill a VOD user request asynchronous with the start of a NVOD transmission but which still makes primary use of the NVOD transmission for that requestor. The system and method combines independent server service satisfying an asynchronous request for only a short duration, usually less than or equal to the NVOD staggered time interval, and then aligns that requestor with an immediately previously commenced NVOD transmission.
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Ganek Alan George
Herzberg Louis Paul
Ruiz Antonio
Willner Barry Edward
Flynn Nathan J.
International Business Machines - Corporation
Jordan Kevin M.
Peng John K.
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