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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 1996
Filed:
Jun. 24, 1993
James E Long, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Joseph M Gang, Jr, Saratoga, CA (US);
Charles J Bedard, Saratoga, CA (US);
Randall B Baird, San Jose, CA (US);
David A Edwards, San Jose, CA (US);
Starlight Networks, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A local area network for supporting video applications comprises a transmission medium, one or more data file servers connected to the transmission medium for supporting data applications in the local area network, a dedicated video server for supporting video applications in the local area network and one or more clients connected to the local area network. The server includes software for managing multiple simultaneous video streams transmitted across the LAN. The client includes software for accessing the dedicated video server across the LAN to transmit video to the server or receive video from the server.