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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:
Nov. 23, 1999
Filed:
May. 02, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Gregory L Renda, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Network Computing Devices, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; H04L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
710 58 ; 710 60 ; 709222 ; 709230 ; 709301 ; 709302 ;
Abstract
An improved method and apparatus for providing multimedia communication between and client device and a server. The improved method and apparatus allows for communication of information, such as audio or video information from an application program to be communicated through a standard application program interface to a device driver which, in turn communicates the information over a network to a server.