Patent ID: 8737805

Claim:
A remote multimedia server, comprising: a mass storage library for storing a plurality of multimedia programs each segmented into at least one audio/video stream; a transmitter for transmitting the at least one audio/video stream to a communication channel; and a local media control system, comprising: a direct access storage device including at least one data storage disk; and a controller for processing for coordinating writing of the at least one audio/video stream received from the communication channel to the data storage disk, and for coordinating reading of the at least one audio/video stream from the data storage disk, the controller providing stream linking in audio/video disk media by sending a linked stream request with a number of a primary stream when additional reading or writing locations in streams are desired in which each stream of locations is a range of addresses on disk media for storing Audio/Video Data in a contiguous area, initiating a linked stream that is linked to the primary stream, setting a pointer for the linked stream to the same location as a pointer for the primary stream, and, during operation, processing the pointers for both the linked stream and the primary stream.