| 摘要 |
A method and apparatus to allow multiple users (17) of a subgroup of neighborhood nodes (21) to share a common stream of video information while providing each user the ability to have video-motion-control without interrupting the video program material viewed by the remaining users sharing the stream of video information. Also, video-motion-control request are transmitted to the management workstation (13) which then determines management workstation resources that may be allocated to the user transmitting the request. The management workstation selects an efficient communication pathway that maximizes the number of users that commence viewing of a program concurrently. Also included is a method and apparatus to maximize the availability of video information in a given video content library (15) which minimizes the storage media required to store the video information contained therein.
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