Television – Special applications – Manufacturing
Patent
1992-12-28
1995-08-15
Groody, James J.
Television
Special applications
Manufacturing
348 13, 455 42, H04N 7173
Patent
active
054423899
ABSTRACT:
The invention relates to a system for transmitting stored programs, such as movies and musical works, to customers via a distribution network, such as a cable television system. The programs are stored in compressed form in a program library, such as a tape cartridge library. On receipt of a request for a program, a request processor sends control messages causing a data block comprising the requested program to be read from the program library at high speed and stored in a large dynamic random access memory (DRAM) in a server. The server then sends the program from DRAM over the distribution system to a customer as a series of digital packets. Each instance of sending a program is managed by a separate command word. The customer can request such operations as "fast forward" by sending control messages that change pointers in the command word. Command words can be grouped to send multiple audio and/or video overlays simultaneously and linked to send program sequences. The request processor, server, program library and interfaces to distribution networks can be at different locations.
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Blahut Donald E.
Szurkowski Edward S.
AT&T Corp.
Grant Chris
Green Geoffrey D.
Groody James J.
Rosenblatt David M.
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