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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 09, 2004
Filed:
May. 04, 2000
Lester Ludwig, Hillsborough, CA (US);
William Blake Brown, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Inn J. Yul, Cupertino, CA (US);
Anh T. Vuong, San Jose, CA (US);
Richard W. Vanderlippe, San Francisco, CA (US);
Gerald Burnett, Atherton, CA (US);
Chris Lauwers, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Richard Lui, Union City, CA (US);
Daniel Applebaum, Incline Village, NV (US);
Collaboration Properties, Inc., Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Abstract
A video storage environment for a networked multimedia system comprising a plurality of workstations, each with audio and video reproduction and capture capabilities. The video storage environmental comprises one or more storage servers. In one embodiment, each video storage server comprises at least one storage cell. Each storage cell internally comprises at least one storage disk, at least one converter, and at least one storage disk, at least one converter, and at least one storage cell manager. The invention provides for various methods of resource allocation under various conditions and policies where there are pluralities of like entities. The invention also provides for transfers of video files among storage disks anywhere in the storage environment, and provides for the same video file to be used simultaneously by multiple users and types of applications. The approach can be extended to included multimedia files comprising any of graphics animations, dynamic annotations, text, and other media accompanying the stored video.