| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable image access without being aware of a location where each image exists. <P>SOLUTION: Images created by one or more image acquisition devices are initially stored in one or more remote databases at remote or satellite locations and copies of the images are subsequently transferred to a central server at a central storage location and stored in a central database. A common catalog listing local image files stored in the central database and remote image files stored in one or more remote databases is stored in the central location. According to user requests for the images associated with the local image files, requested images are transferred to a user by the central server. The user requests associated with the remote image files are relayed by the central server to the associated remote location, and the requested images are relayed to the user from the remote location via the central server. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2013,JPO&INPIT |
