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Multimedia system having server for retrieving media data as indicated in the list provided by a client computer

  • US 5,987,501 A
  • Filed: 07/14/1998
  • Issued: 11/16/1999
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/21/1994
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A distributed multimedia network system, comprising:

  • a server computer having a disk on which media data is stored;

    a client computer having means for requesting media data from the server computer and means for providing to the server computer a list of media data which may be requested by the client;

    an optical media transport connecting the server computer to the client computer and communicating media data between the client computer and the server computer; and

    in the server, means for retrieving media data from the disk as indicated in the list provided by the client computer caching at the retrieved media data.

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