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Server for notifying items of interest and delivering locally accessed video in a WAN to client stations on demand

  • US 6,163,795 A
  • Filed: 06/30/1997
  • Issued: 12/19/2000
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/14/1994
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A video delivery system, comprising:

  • a plurality of client stations used by a client and adapted to receive and play digital video entities; and

    a plurality of file servers remote from the client stations, the file servers connected on a wide area network (WAN), the file servers also having connections to video input apparatus for receiving and storing digital video entities including newly downloaded locally-accessed video entities, and connected to at least one of the plurality of client stations by a digital communication link;

    wherein the file servers automatically transmit in bursts the newly downloaded locally-accessed video entities to each of the plurality of file servers on the network through the WAN connections, store details of connected clients interests provided by the client, notifies the connected clients of new video entities available conforming to the stored details of the clients interests, and transmits selected video entities to at least one of the client stations on demand.

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