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Viewer controllable on-demand multimedia service

  • US 5,629,732 A
  • Filed: 03/29/1994
  • Issued: 05/13/1997
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/29/1994
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. Apparatus for providing multimedia events comprising:

  • a memory for storing a plurality of data groups at different memory locations, said data groups representative of a selected multimedia event;

    a processing element for retrieving data groups from said memory; and

    a transmitter for providing a plurality of data streams, each data stream representative of a version of the selected multimedia event starting at a different time;

    said processing element generating a plurality of pointers, each pointer being associated with a different data stream, each pointer indicating memory locations from where data groups are retrieved to form the data stream associated therewith.

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