Oracle Media Server: Providing Consumer Based Interactive Access to Multimedia Data
Published in: Proceedings of the 1994 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD ‘94), Minneapolis, Minnesota, pp. 470-477. Authors: Andrew Laursen, Jeffrey Olkin, Mark Porter (New Media Division, Oracle Corporation) The paper describes the Oracle Media Server, a platform for distributed client-server computing and access to data over asymmetric real-time networks. With the introduction of broadband communications to the home and better than 100-to-1 compression techniques, a new form of network-based computing was emerging where structured data was still important, but the bulk of data became unstructured: audio, video, news feeds, etc. ...