Television – Special applications – Manufacturing
Patent
1997-01-22
1999-07-20
Kostak, Victor R.
Television
Special applications
Manufacturing
455 41, 348385, H04N 710
Patent
active
059262052
ABSTRACT:
Selective video-on-demand access is provided to a virtually unlimited number of subscribers by partitioning the video program into an ordered sequence of N segments and providing the subscribers concurrent access to each of the N segments. A data stream representative of the video program is partitioned into N subsequences, each representative of one of the N segments. The data of each of the N subsequences is organized as an ordered sequence of elements. The elements of each of the N subsequences are interleaved and the interleaved data stream is continuously transmitted over a video program distribution medium at a rate which renders the data representing each segment concurrently available to any subscriber having a receiver capable of selecting, assembling, and displaying the data of a particular segment.
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Krause Edward A.
Shen Paul
Tom Adam S.
Imedia Corporation
Kostak Victor R.
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