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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 1999
Filed:
Mar. 04, 1996
Taihei Yugawa, Osaka, JP;
Kunihiko Sakoda, Osaka, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A multimedia server has: a server section having a transfer-request accepting section for accepting a transfer request for data, a processor connected to the transfer-request accepting section, for discriminating the kind of the data and for converting the transfer request to a transfer instruction, and a bus interface; a storage device for storing data; an accelerator section having a storage-device interface for interfacing to the storage device and for retrieving data therefrom, a data transfer section for transferring the data, a processor for processing the transfer instruction issued from the server section, and for issuing a transfer instruction to have the data transferred from the storage-device interface to the data transfer section and then issuing a transfer instruction to the data transfer section to transfer the data to a requesting destination, and a bus interface; and a bus for connecting the server section with the accelerator section.