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Method and apparatus for real-time information processing in a multi-media system

  • US 5,848,134 A
  • Filed: 01/27/1997
  • Issued: 12/08/1998
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/31/1996
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An information processing apparatus for performing a process to allow terminals of a plurality of media types to transmit and receive a message, comprising:

  • communications means for real-time communication between a terminal of a first media and a terminal of a second media;

    memory means for storing terminal information about a plurality of terminals which transmit and receive messages;

    converter means for converting a message received from the first media terminal through the communications means into data in a data format of the second media terminal, and for converting a message received from the second media terminal through the communications means into data in a data format of the first media terminal; and

    control means for converting the message transmitted from one of the first media terminal and the second media terminal, using the converter means, and for transmitting a message on a real-time basis to the other of the first media terminal and the second media terminal, in the data formats respectively compatible with the other of the first media terminal and the second media terminal, based on the terminal information stored in the memory means.

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