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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 25, 2006
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2002
Michael L. Reed, San Diego, CA (US);
John D. Frazier, Ramona, CA (US);
Kevin K. Gold, San Diego, CA (US);
Michael L. Reed, San Diego, CA (US);
John D. Frazier, Ramona, CA (US);
Kevin K. Gold, San Diego, CA (US);
NCR Corp., Dayton, OH (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus for streaming data from a database system to a client system. In one implementation, a database management system includes: one or more data storage facilities for use in storing data composing records in tables of a database, where the data includes media data stored in one or more media objects; one or more processing modules configured to manage the data stored in the data-storage facilities; one or more quality of service modules configured to manage streaming media data from the data-storage facilities; and a database management component configured to receive stream requests and database queries for data stored in the data-storage facilities, including passing a stream request indicating media data to the processing module that corresponds to the data-storage facility storing the media data indicated by the stream request.