Patent ID: 11962845
Assignee: UNITED STATES AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION (USAA)
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A method for requesting video data associated with an event, the method comprising:
determining an event location and an event time associated with the event;
identifying A) a geographic range associated with the event location and B) a time duration associated with the event time;
generating query parameters for querying meta-data associated with video data stored in at least two video storage sources; and
automatically querying the at least two video storage sources, using the query parameters, to obtain video files that correspond to the geographic range and the time duration,
wherein the video files comprise video data associated with the event,
wherein a first video storage source of the at least two video storage sources includes at least video data acquired by cameras associated with vehicles, and
wherein a second video storage source of the at least two video storage sources is a publicly available video aggregator of videos posted by a plurality of entities.