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Information service control point which retrieves information as blocks of data and outputs the retrieved data via a communications link

  • US 5,604,682 A
  • Filed: 04/19/1996
  • Issued: 02/18/1997
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/15/1993
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A system for communicating data, the data together forming at least one title in an interactive services information database, from a central station configured to administrate the information database to a plurality of remote stations, said system comprising:

  • storage means in the information database for storing the data;

    retrieving means operatively connected to said storage means for retrieving the data as data blocks, wherein each data block is a sequential segment of the data;

    a communications link operatively connected to said storage means and said retrieving means for receiving the retrieved data blocks and transmitting the retrieved data blocks from the central station; and

    a plurality of communications paths connecting respective remote stations with said communications link,wherein said communications link comprises;

    an array of trunk processors, each associated with at least one of said communications paths; and

    a switch matrix operatively connected to said storage means, said retrieving means, and said array of trunk processors, wherein said switch matrix establishes switch paths between said storage means and said array of trunk processors in accordance with commands from said retrieving means.

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