System And Method For Obtaining And Distributing Video

• US 20090276816A1
• Filed: 05/05/2008
• Published: 11/05/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 05/05/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Anh Hao Tran
• Original Assignee: Anh Hao Tran
• Inventors: Tran, Anh Hao
• Application Number:
  US12/115,477
• Publication Number:
  US 20090276816A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/87
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2743 Video hosting of uploaded data from client
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4334 Recording operations recording of a television signal H04N5/76; arrangements for recording or accumulating broadcast information or broadcast-related information H04H60/27
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47202 for requesting content on demand, e.g. video on demand
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6125 involving transmission via Internet transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/632 using a connection between clients on a wide area network, e.g. setting up a peer-to-peer communication via Internet for retrieving video segments from the hard-disk of other client devices broadcast-related systems characterised by transmission among terminal devices H04H60/80; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8133 specifically related to the content, e.g. biography of the actors in a movie, detailed information about an article seen in a video program
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/84 Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems H04H60/73

Abstract

A method for obtaining and distributing video having the steps of: receiving a request for a video recording device from a user; sending a video recording device to the user; receiving the video recording device from the user, the video recording device having stored thereon a video about a subject; collecting information about the subject of the video; and transferring the video from the video recording device and the collected information about the subject to a database accessible via a global computer network.

Claims

1. ) A method for obtaining and distributing video comprising the steps of:

a) receiving a request for a video recording device from a user;

b) sending a video recording device to the user;

c) receiving the video recording device from the user, the video recording device having stored thereon a video about a subject;

d) collecting information about the subject of the video; and

e) transferring the video from the video recording device and the collected information about the subject to a database accessible via a global computer network.

2. ) The method of claim 1 wherein the request for the video recording device is made by the user via at least one of the group consisting of a telephone, electronic mail, text messaging, and regular mail.

3. ) The method of claim 1 wherein the request for the video recording device is made by the user via a website.

4. ) The method of claim 1 wherein the step of collecting information about the subject of the video further comprises receiving information about the subject from the user.

5. ) The method of claim 4 wherein the information about the subject is received via at least one of the group consisting of telephone, electronic mail, text messaging, and regular mail.

6. ) The method of claim 1 wherein the step of collecting information about the subject of the video further comprises:

accessing at least one database over a global computer network; and

retrieving information corresponding to subject of the video.

7. ) The method of claim 1 wherein the video recording device sent to the user has a global positioning system therein and the video further comprises global positioning system information;

and the method further comprises the step of correlating the subject to a specific geographic location.

8. ) The method of claim 1 further comprising the step of editing the video to add collected information about the subject of the video.

9. ) A method for obtaining and distributing video comprising the steps of:

a) receiving a request for a video recording device from a user;

b) sending a video recording device to the user;

c) receiving a video from the video recording device over a global computer network, the video being of a subject;

d) collecting information about the subject of the video; and

e) placing the video and the collected information in a database accessible via the global computer network.

10. ) The method for distributing video of claim 9 wherein the video recording device comprises a network adapter enabling direct connection of the video recording device to a wired network or a wireless network for transferring the video.

11. ) The method of claim 9 wherein the information about the subject is received from a user via at least one of the group consisting of a telephone, electronic mail, text messaging, and regular mail.

12. ) The method of claim 9 wherein the step of collecting information about the subject of the video further comprises:

accessing at least one database of the global computer network; and

retrieving information corresponding to the subject of the video.

13. ) The method of claim 9 further comprising the step of editing the video to add collected information about the subject of the video.

14. ) A method for obtaining and distributing video comprising the steps of:

a) receiving a request for a video recording device from a user;

b) sending a video recording device to the user, the video recording device having a global positioning system therein and wherein video obtained with the camera is encoded with global positioning information;

c) receiving video from the video recording device over a global computer network, the video being of a subject and having global positioning information;

d) collecting information about the subject of the video; and

e) placing the video and collected information in a database accessible via a global computer network.

15. ) The method of claim 14 wherein the request for the video recording device is made by the user via at least one of the group consisting of a telephone, electronic mail, text messaging, and regular mail.

16. ) The method of claim 14 wherein the step of collecting information about the subject of the video further comprises receiving information about the subject from the user.

17. ) The method of claim 16 wherein the information about the subject is received via at least one of the group consisting of telephone, electronic mail, text messaging, and regular mail.

18. ) The method of claim 16 wherein:

the request for the video recording device is received from the user via a website; and

information about the subject is received from the user via a website.

19. ) The method of claim 14 wherein the step of collecting information about the subject of the video further comprises:

accessing at least one database over the global computer network; and

retrieving information corresponding to the global positioning information on the video.

20. ) The method of claim 19 wherein:

the subject is a real estate item; and

the collected information includes the address of the item.