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Video on demand with memory accessing and or like functions

  • US 5,442,390 A
  • Filed: 07/07/1993
  • Issued: 08/15/1995
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/07/1993
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A system for interactively viewing a selected one of a plurality of videos, the selected video including a plurality of frames, each frame including digitally encoded video data and a time stamp, the video data representing time sequenced image signals and audio signals for play-back on a viewing device, a communications network for transmitting the video data, comprising:

  • means for requesting the transmission of the selected video on the communications network;

    a network interface, coupled to the communications network for receiving the selected video as a first stream of video data;

    a memory buffer, coupled to said network interface, for storing a segment of the selected video, said segment including video data of a forward moving time interval of the selected video;

    a write pointer, coupled to said memory buffer, associated with said first stream of video data to be written to said memory buffer;

    a read pointer, coupled to said memory buffer, associated with a second stream of video data to be read from said memory buffer;

    means coupled to said write pointer, for writing said first stream of video data to said memory buffer while receiving the selected video;

    means, coupled to said read pointer for reading said second stream of video data from said memory buffer while writing said first stream of video data, said means for reading operating independently from said means for writing, to display any video data of said segment of the selected video on the viewing device while receiving said first stream of video data; and

    an index for associating the time stamps of the frames with memory addresses of said memory buffer where the frames are stored.

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