Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20080134090
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Prior Art Detail
Summary / Description
| Summary / Description | The present invention relates to a video on demand system of the type wherein multiple clients are serviced by video streams delivered from a video server. The invention also relates to a method of scheduling videos in such a video-on-demand system. |
Basic Information
| Type of Prior Art | Issued Patents - US |
| Country | United States of America |
| Patent/Application # | EP 0 759 676 B1 |
| Kind Code | United States (US) - United STATES Patent - A |
| Patentee Name | International Business Machines Corporation |
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| URL | |
| Filing Date | July 24, 1996 |
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Notes / To Do
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Excerpt
Excerpt [0002] Video-on-demand (VOD) servers commonly include a group of centralised servers that store a large number of videos on disks and play these videos to
widely distributed clients.
[0003] In general, clients request videos independently of each other...
[0005] According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of scheduling videos in a video-on-demand system, comprising the steps of:
receiving a plurality of requests from users of the system, for playing of the videos;
determining a time at which a next playing of a video by the video-on-demand system will occur based on present availability of system resources and anticipated load on the system;
selecting a particular video to play based at least in part on attributes of the requests which have not yet been serviced; and,
after the selecting and when the time for the next playing arrives, playing the particular video to service |
Relevance
Claims
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Relevance
Disclosed are the attributes of a video-on-demand (VOD) system.
Claim 1 seems to claim the known attributes of a VOD system.
Disclosed are the attributes of a video-on-demand (VOD) system.
Claim 1 seems to claim the known attributes of a VOD system.
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