Television – Special applications – Manufacturing
Patent
1996-02-06
1998-09-29
Peng, John K.
Television
Special applications
Manufacturing
348 12, 348 6, 455 51, H04N 710
Patent
active
058151940
ABSTRACT:
In order to serve, to each of a plurality of client terminals, programs and data for selecting a video service while considering the memory capacity of the client terminals, client terminals of a video-on-demand system of the invention send information of their memory capacity together with a request for downloading video selection programs to a server station.
The server station downloads the video selection programs arranged into MPEG formatted data, step by step according to the memory capacity information and to the result of the program executed in each of the client terminals, providing an excellent graphical user interface making use of an ordinary bi-directional data transmission network.
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Lo Linus M.
NEC Corporation
Peng John K.
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