| 摘要 |
A video jukebox service has a world-wide array of file servers (1, 3, 5, 7) interconnected by data links (9, 11, 13, 15) and having video input apparatus (14). Each file server has a plurality of clients (17, 19, 21). Video clippings input at the video input apparatus are shared with the other file servers and stored in a database (12) at each file server. Clients are notified (68) of availability of video clippings, and clippings are downloaded to client stations on demand. In a preferred embodiment, the file server network is a toroidal arrangement (122), and the client communication nodes (115, 116) equal in number to the number of file servers are interconnected in a toroidal fashion as well. Individual client stations (127) are connected to individual ones of the client communication nodes, with the overall network in the form nested toroids (111).
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