| US 5,805,804 C1 (7055th) | ||
| METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SCALABLE, HIGH BANDWIDTH STORAGE RETRIEVAL AND TRANSPORTATION OF MULTIMEDIA DATA ON A NETWORK | ||
| Andrew Laursen, San Mateo, Calif.; Jeffrey C. Olkin, Sunnyvale, Calif.; Mark A. Porter, Woodside, Calif.; Farzad Nazem, Redwood City, Calif.; William Bailey, Palo Alto, Calif., and Mark Moore, Foster City, Calif., assignors to Broadband Royalty Corporation, Wilmington, Del. | ||
| Reexamination Request No. 90/008,536, Mar. 22, 2007. | ||
| Reexamination Certificate for Patent 5,805,804, issued Sep. 8, 1998, Appl. No. 816,207, Mar. 12, 1997. | ||
| Continuation of application No. 08/343,762, filed on Nov. 21, 1994, now abandoned. | ||
| Int. Cl. H04N 5/00;7/173; |
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| U.S. Cl. 709—223 |
| AS A RESULT OF REEXAMINATION, IT HAS BEEN DETERMINED THAT: |
| The patentability of claims 4-14 is confirmed. |
| Claims 1-3 are cancelled. |
| New claims 15-19 are added and determined to be patentable. |
| 4. A computer-implemented method for retrieving and transporting multimedia data between a client and a server on a network, said computer-implemented method comprising the steps of: receiving a client request for initialization in a message to an upstream manager in said server, said upstream manager being coupled to a first network;
obtaining an upstream physical address for said client as said client request enters said server;
allocating a downstream physical address and downstream logical address to said client corresponding to the upstream physical address obtained for said client, said downstream physical address being used by a downstream manager for sending a stream of said multimedia data from a service on said server to said client, said downstream manager being coupled to a second network; and
updating a connection service table with said upstream physical address, said downstream physical address, and said downstream logical address for said client.
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