MULTIMEDIA SERVER SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING MULTIMEDIA INFORMATION

    公开(公告)号:JPH0951517A

    公开(公告)日:1997-02-18

    申请号:JP12955396

    申请日:1996-05-24

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide the multimedia server system and method which transmit a multimedia program to a remote medium control system. SOLUTION: A program is encoded according to specific compression standards and stored in a storage library in compressed digital format as individual program segments which are sequenced representing the characteristic part of the program. A video parser composes a program segment sequence in custom order of the sequential program segments of the program. The custom order sequence accords with constitution parameters related to the constitution of the medium control system requesting the program and a representation control mechanism. The simultaneous transmission of program segment sequences in plural corresponding customer sequences to plural remote medium control systems is facilitated with an asynchronous transfer mode distribution switch. A program segment sequences is processed by a local medium control system so as to provide the sequential representation of the program segments and also provide a local VCR type control function.

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