Patent ID: 6839765

Claim:
A process of transferring multimedia information in a multimedia information transfer system which comprises a multimedia server, a client server coupled to said multimedia server for status management, said process comprising the steps of: storing and reproducing, at said multimedia server, data streams of multimedia information; dividing said multimedia information, at said multimedia server, into N data blocks (where N is an integer no less than 2), and each of which N data blocks includes n data units (where n is an integer no less than 1), sequentially transferring said multimedia information into N data blocks to said client server on a data block basis, and sending a request to transfer said multimedia information divided into N data blocks from said client server to a proper field of said matrix table; requesting, at said client server, said multimedia server to divide said multimedia information into N data blocks and to transfer N data blocks of said multimedia information to said client server; and storing and registering, at said client server, the transferred data blocks f said multimedia information, and providing a visual display of said multimedia information concurrently with the storage and registration of said multimedia information, wherein said multimedia information divided into N data blocks is transferred from said multimedia server to said client server independently of the update of said transfer and receive status areas of said matrix table.