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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 2000
Filed:
Apr. 17, 1998
Jun-ichi Yamato, Toyko, JP;
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A stream transfer control system including a server unit and a plurality of clients connected to each other through a network, the server unit including a plurality of transmission buffers provided corresponding to the respective clients, a read management unit for issuing a data reading request upon receiving a transfer request from a client, as well as issuing a data reading request every time a data block stored in the transmission buffer is read to empty the buffer, and a data transfer unit for reading a data block in the transmission buffer after a lapse of a fixed time since when a transfer request arrives at the read management unit and at every lapse of the fixed time from then on, thereby transferring streams to the plurality of clients over the network.