REAL-TIME MULTIMEDIA TRANSMISSION

摘要

A method for conveying a multimedia sequence from a source computer (24) to a destination computer (26), including, providing an ordered series of data frames (120, 122, 124, 126) at the source computer (24), each data frame corresponding to an image (40, 42, 44) in the sequence and including data representing one or more media associated with the image, producing a table (104) including pointers (114), each pointer associated with one frame in the series, transmitting the table (104) to the destination computer (26), and responsive to selection of one of the pointers (114) in the table (104), transmitting at least a sub-series of the series of data frames, said sub-series beginning with the frame with which the selected one of the pointers is associated.