Method and system for providing on-line interactivity over a...

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2011-06-28

2011-06-28

Nguyen, Thuong T (Department: 2452)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput

Distributed data processing

Client/server

C709S223000, C707S793000, C707S793000, C715S201000, C715S203000, C715S723000, C715S212000, C715S221000, C718S001000, C718S100000, C718S102000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07970818

ABSTRACT:
Apparatus and a method for communicating media over a network including encoding the media into a server database at a server, downloading from the server database to a client database generally only those portions of the media which are necessary to satisfy user requests and in response to a user request for a given item of media, determining whether the media is present in the client database, and if not, automatically downloading those portions of the media which are necessary to supply the user with the given item of media from the server database. An image server is provided including at least one processor operative to supply portions of image data to clients in response to multiple requests therefrom, and thread management software operating the at least one processor by causing it to process the requests using at least one of a plurality of threads, the thread management software being characterized in that it initiates a new thread when an existing thread has exceeded a predetermined metric of busyness.

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