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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2002
Filed:
Jul. 09, 1999
Stefan Wahl, Schwieberdingen, DE;
Alcatel, Paris, FR;
Abstract
A procedure for operating a server (SERV) that supplies subscribers with data streams of different contents (CONT to CONT ), as well as a server and a control unit for executing the procedure. The contents (CONT to CONT ) are each stored in a memory unit or in several memory units of the server, and in order to supply a subscriber (SUB to SUB ) with a data stream of a particular content, the particular content is read out from the memory unit or from one of the memory units in which the content is stored, and sent to the subscriber as a data stream. A Busy list is set up for each of the contents (CONT to CONT ) stored in the memory units (DSD to DSD ) of the server (SERV). Each memory unit (DSD to DSD ) in which a content is stored, is allocated to the Busy list of the content stored in it. Each memory unit (DSD ) that is not at that time needed for supplying a subscriber, is allocated to a Free list. If a further memory unit is needed in order to supply subscriber with a particular content, a memory unit allocated to the Free list is selected for this purpose, and it is first attempted to select a memory unit allocated to the Free list that is also allocated to the Busy list of the particular content.