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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 1998
Filed:
Jul. 09, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Asit Dan, West Harrison, NY (US);
Dinkar Sitaram, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ; H04N / ; H04H / ; G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
39520033 ; 395615 ; 348-7 ; 455-42 ;
Abstract
A video server is provided with buffer manager which balances the loads on the various 'movie storage' elements of a video server by preferentially buffering streams on highly loaded storage elements. The allocation of buffer takes place only when the storage element load increases due to the arrival of a new request or when buffer becomes available due to the pausing or stopping of an old request.