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System for supplying streams of data to multiple users by distributing a data stream to multiple processors and enabling each user to manipulate supplied data stream

  • US 5,671,377 A
  • Filed: 07/19/1994
  • Issued: 09/23/1997
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/19/1994
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. Apparatus for supplying, in response to user commands, independent streams of output data to a plurality of users, comprising:

  • a parallel processing computer containing a plurality of processors each connected to an information storage device;

    an input/output circuit, connected to each of said processors, for distributing an input data stream amongst the processors such that each of the information storage devices stores a portion of the input data stream;

    interface means, connected between said parallel processing computer and said users, for interpreting said user commands and causing said parallel processing computer to access, from each of said information storage devices, stored input data in accordance with the user commands; and

    enabling each individual user to manipulate the stream of data supplied to that individual usersaid input/output circuit supplies each of said users with said accessed data as a stream of output data.

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