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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2000
Filed:
May. 20, 1997
Henry Dexter Chadwick, Herndon, VA (US);
David William Davenport, Raleigh, NC (US);
Leonard DeGollado, Silver Spring, MD (US);
James William Eldridge, San Jose, CA (US);
Michael Joseph Flynn, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Roger Lee Haskin, San Jose, CA (US);
Leung Ping Lee, Potomac, MD (US);
Gregory Allen Poist, Union City, CA (US);
Frank Lonnie Stein, Vienna, VA (US);
Jeffrey Lloyd Weiner, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A fault tolerant multimedia program distribution system includes a number of controllers for transmitting instances of predetermined multimedia program information to a communications network at predetermined times, a storage system for storing the multimedia program information, and a multiple access storage control device which allows multiple access to the storage system by more than one distribution controller at any time.