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METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING DATA FROM DIGITAL NETWORK SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS

  • US 20140232874A1
  • Filed: 02/14/2014
  • Published: 08/21/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/15/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer implemented method of establishing and managing an arbitrarily large, geographically distributed video surveillance network comprising a plurality of independent video processing components operatively coupled by a data network, each independent video processing component configured to implement one or more tasks, the one or more tasks comprising video capture, relaying, recording, processing, storage, analysis and event-monitoring of video and audio files and information, the method comprising the steps of:

  • discovering and registering each video capture component of the plurality of independent video processing components with a distributed database;

    transmitting streaming data, by each video capture component, to one or more associated recording components of the plurality of independent video processing components;

    converting the streaming data into a succession of compressed media segments, storing each of the compressed media segments on a storage medium, and transmitting an event notification message to one or more event-monitoring components of the plurality of independent video processing components, by said one or more associated recording components; and

    transmitting event notification message to one or more event-monitoring components by one or more analysis components of the plurality of independent video processing components;

    wherein upon receiving the event notification messages from one or more video processing components of the plurality of independent video processing components, the one or more event-monitoring components update the distributed database with received event notification messages.

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