| 摘要 |
<p>A system provides multimedia communication over the Internet or other online service. In a preferred embodiment, the system includes a computer host (11) that is accessible over the online service (17). The user is provided with a freely removable storage medium (13), for storing digital video information and on which digital video information has been stored. The User also has a local digital reading device (14) for reading data from the storage medium (13); and a local computer (12) running a client process (16) providing access (i) to the digital video information stored on the local storage medium (13) when the medium (13) is loaded in the reading device (14) and (ii) over the online service (17) to the computer host (11). Finally, this system includes a server process (15) running on the computer host (11) for controlling access by the client process (16) to the local storage medium (13) for digital video information.</p> |
