Patents by Inventor Boris Klots

Boris Klots has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Multi-node media server that provides video to a plurality of terminals from a single buffer when video requests are close in time
    Patent number: 5808607
    Abstract: A multi-node video server system in accordance with the invention comprises disk storage associated with a first node which stores at least a portion of a video presentation in the form of plural data blocks, each data block comprising a viewing time segment of the presentation. RAM buffer in a second node receives and stores data blocks of the video presentation from the disk storage in the first node, upon an initial request by a first viewing terminal to view a portion of the video presentation. A communication module in the second node outputs the data blocks, as an isochronous data stream, to requesting terminals. A host controller is coupled to the video server nodes and receives requests from viewing terminals for the video presentation. The host controller causes the communication module in the second node to connect to a viewing terminal which renders the initial request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 15, 1998
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: James Thomas Brady, Linda Marie Duyanovich, Boris Klots