| 摘要 |
A method of and apparatus for efficiently providing video on demand services to a cable television subscriber. The provider system consists of two major subsystems. The first subsystem, called a video server (20, 22, 24), streams video to video on demand subscribers through the cable television network. The second subsystem, called the transaction server (12), performs virtually all remaining provider functions including security, accounting, storage and spooling of video data, etc. The video server (20, 22, 24) is preferably implemented using a plurality of personal computers. The transaction server (12) preferably uses a large scale mainframe computer. |
