System and process for delivering digital data on demand

Details System and process for delivering digital data on demand System and process for delivering digital data on demand

1996-08-08

1999-07-27

Hsia, Sherrie

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput

Remote data accessing

348 7, 348 13, 709219, G06F 1516, H04N 7173

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059283270

ABSTRACT:
A video server system and method has a modular and expandable system design to deliver a plurality of video streams on user demand and under user control. The video server system and method has a central control module adapted to receive control commands such as SELECT, PLAY, REWIND, PAUSE etc. to select and playback a video from a plurality of videos stored in a storage module. The central control module is a computer motherboard having a first small computer serial interface (SCSI) coupled to the storage device. The central control module also has memory for buffering data blocks of video retrieved from the storage device or devices prior to delivery to the delivery module also included in the system. The delivery module is also a computer motherboard having memory and also having a plurality of video processors for processing the video data prior to coupling the data to a client location. The delivery module additionally has a SCSI interface configured to operate in a target mode so that the central control module transfers video data to the delivery module in the same manner that it would use if it were writing to a conventional SCSI disk drive.

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