Abstract: A process is provided for managing operations including encoding operations in a network system including an administrator terminal, at least one server communicatively coupled to the administrator terminal via a computer network, and at least one multimedia device operative to generate media data and being communicatively coupled with a corresponding one of the servers. Each of the servers is operative to selectively activate the corresponding multimedia device, and is also operative to encode media data received from the corresponding multimedia device, and is further operative to access a corresponding memory device for storing media data.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 3, 2000
Date of Patent:
November 8, 2005
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation
Inventors:
William Russell Belknap, Todd Robert Bender, Shannon Matthew Farrington, Cary Lane Rohwer, Lucy Anita Taylor, Sundar Veliah