CORRELATED MEDIA SOURCE MANAGEMENT AND RESPONSE CONTROL

• US 20110018998A1
• Filed: 09/30/2010
• Published: 01/27/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 04/28/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Getac Technology Corporation, WHP Workflow Solutions Inc (Getac Technology Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Whp Workflow Solutions, LLC
• Inventors: Guzik, Thomas
• Granted Patent: US 10,419,722 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/143
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/16 Human faces, e.g. facial parts, sketches or expressions
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/765 intermediate
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/80 Responding to QoS
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1074 for supporting data block transmission mechanisms file transfer H04L67/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/21 Server components or server architectures
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23 Processing of content or additional data; Elementary server operations; Server middleware
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/18 Closed-circuit television [CCTV] systems, i.e. systems in which the video signal is not broadcast
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/12 WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]

Abstract

Response personnel may be dispatched based on nature of the data assets received. A data asset that is captured by a user device is received, the data asset includes capture time and date data. The data asset is reviewed for an event that warrants dispatch of a responder. The responder is dispatched to the location of the event when the capture time and date data indicates the event occurred within a predetermined time of a current time.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving a data asset that is captured by a user device, the data asset includes capture time and date data;

reviewing the data asset for an event that warrants dispatch of at least one responder; and

dispatching the at least one responder to a location of the event when the capture time and date data indicates the event occurred within a predetermined time period of a current time.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the receiving the data asset includes receiving the data asset from an anonymous user device.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising registering the user device with the at a network operations center (NOC) as an authorized device, and wherein the receiving the data asset includes receiving the data asset from the authorized device.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising at least one of:

ascertaining a device identity of the user device and contact information of a user of the user device;

sending a message to the user device that indicates a status of the event or a link to a website that describes the status of the event;

activating a video or still image camera that is within a preselected range of the event;

or

associating a person of interest with the event, wherein the dispatching include dispatching the at least one responder to locate the person of interest.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the reviewing the data asset includes obtaining the location of the event via geolocation data embedded in the data asset.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the dispatching includes dispatching the at least one responder via a live dispatcher or dispatching the at least one responder via an application that automatically alerts at least one responder within a predetermined range of the event.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving an additional data asset that captures the event from an additional user device;

determining a corresponding location for each user device at the time of the event; and

generating a map display that shows the corresponding location of each user device at the time of the event.

8. A system, comprising:

a processor; and

memory storing components executable by the processor, the components comprising;

an analysis component to analyze at least one data asset received from a user device to detect an occurrence of an event that warrants dispatch of at least one responder, the at least one data asset including information related to a location, and time and date of the occurrence; and

a dispatch component to automatically dispatch the at least one responder within a predetermined range of the location of the event to the location when the time and date indicates the event occurred within a predetermined time period of the current period.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the analysis component is to further perform at least one of:

ascertain a device identity of the user device and contact information of an owner of the user device;

or

associating a person of interest with the event, and wherein the dispatch component is to further dispatch the at least one responder to locate the person of interest.

10. The system of claim 8, further comprising an alert component to perform at least one of:

generate a map display that provides a location of each user device that provided a data asset related to the event;

activate a still image camera or a video camera that is within a preselected range of the location of the event;

provide at least one of a description of the event or a request for information related to the event to a subscriber of a message service;

or

sending a message to the user device that indicates a status of the event or a link to a website that describes the status of the event.

11. One or more computer readable media storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed, cause one or more processors to perform acts comprising:

determining a quantitative parameter of a mobile client; and

transmitting full-motion video and full-quality audio captured by the mobile client along with metadata generated at the user device to a recipient device when the quantitative parameter has yet to reach a initial threshold; and

transmitting at least one still shot and the full-quality audio captured by the mobile client and the metadata to the recipient device when the quantitative parameter reaches the initial threshold.

12. The one or more computer readable media of claim 11, further comprising instructions that when execute, cause the one or more processors to perform additional acts comprising:

transmitting only full-quality audio and the metadata to the recipient device when the quantitative parameter reaches a second threshold that is smaller or larger than the initial threshold;

transmitting only downgraded audio captured by the mobile client and the metadata to the recipient device when the quantitative parameter reaches a third threshold that is smaller or larger than the second threshold;

transmitting only the metadata to the recipient device when the quantitative parameter reaches a fourth threshold that is smaller or larger than the third threshold; and

terminating the transmitting of the metadata when the quantitative parameter reaches a fifth threshold that is smaller or larger than the fourth threshold.

13. The one or more computer readable media of claim 11, further comprising instructions that when executed, cause the one or more processors to perform an act of presenting a playback of the full-motion video that is temporally synchronized with the audio or presenting a playback of a plurality of still shots that are temporally synchronized with the audio.

14. The one or more computer readable media of claim 11, wherein the metadata is inputted by an operator of the mobile client or automatically generated by the mobile client.

15. The one or more computer readable media of claim 11, wherein the receiving the at least one still shot includes receiving a plurality of still shots such that a number of the plurality of still shots is inversely proportional to an variance in the quantitative parameter.

16. The one or more computer readable media of claim 11, wherein the receiving the at least one still shot includes receiving a plurality of still shots that are associated with an event in a group.

17. A method, comprising:

determining one or more parameters related to transmitting of a video input from a capture device to a recipient device; and

transmitting the video input as full-motion video or at least one still shot from the capture device to the recipient device based on the one or more parameters.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the determining includes determining a data transport protocol of the capture device or a network bandwidth of a wireless connection that is to transport the video input from the capture device to a recipient device, wherein the transmitting includes transmitting the video input as at least one still shot when at least one of the data transport protocol or the network bandwidth is unable to support transmission of the video input as full-motion video.

19. The method of claim 17, wherein the determining includes determining a codec used by the capture device or a hardware characteristic of the capture device, and wherein the transmitting includes transmitting the video input as at least one still shot when the codec is unable to support transmission of the video input as the full-motion video.

20. The method of claim 17, wherein the determining includes determining a user-defined setting for the capture device, and wherein the transmitting includes transmitting the video input as at least one still shot when the user-defined setting prevents the video input from being transmitted as the full-motion video.

21. The method of claim 17, wherein the transmitting includes transmitting the video input as the full-motion video when a data transport protocol, a network bandwidth, a codec, and a hardware characteristic supports transmission of the video input as the full-motion video and the user-defined setting permits the video input to be transmitted as the full-motion video.

22. The method of claim 17, wherein the transmitting the at least one still shot includes transmitting a number of still shots proportional to the bandwidth of the wireless connection.

23. The method of claim 17, further comprising counting the full-motion video that is related an event as a first data asset, and counting a plurality of still shots that are related to the event or a different event as a second data asset.

24. The method of claim 17, further comprising temporally synchronize the video input that includes the full-motion video or the at least one still shot with an audio stream received from an audio capture device that is part of the capture device to create a multimedia file.

25. The method of claim 24, further comprising at least one of:

associating the multimedia file with an event or a case;

determining a relevance of the multimedia file to an event or a case based on a search criteria;

selecting the multimedia file from a plurality of multimedia files based on a filtering criteria;

correlating the multimedia file with metadata inputted by an operator of the capture device;

displaying correlating metadata associated with the multimedia file during a playback of the multimedia file;

displaying a portion of the multimedia file that is temporally selected via a time slider user interface;

displaying a plurality of still shots in the multimedia file as a slideshow;

or

displaying a thumbnail representation of the multimedia file.