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Control of data distribution apparatus and data distribution system

  • US 8,064,080 B2
  • Filed: 11/10/2005
  • Issued: 11/22/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/15/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A data distribution method of distributing real-time image data from a camera server apparatus to clients via a network, comprising:

  • storing the real-time image data in a memory;

    determining whether a number of clients to which the real-time image data are being distributed is less than a predetermined number;

    uploading the stored image data in the memory to a storage server apparatus which is different from the clients which requested the real-time image data when it is determined in the determining step that the number of clients to which the real-time image data are being distributed is less than the predetermined number; and

    interrupting uploading of the stored image data in the memory when it is determined that the number of clients to which the real-time image data are being distributed is not less than the predetermined number after it is determined that the number of clients to which the real-time image data are being distributed is less than the predetermined number.

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