Patent ID: 11861639
Assignee: nan
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 18:
19. A system, comprising:
devices situated throughout a store, wherein the devices are processing devices;
cameras situated throughout the store;
a hardware processor of a server;
a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising executable instructions; and
the executable instructions executed by the hardware processor from the non-transitory computer-readable storage medium cause the hardware processor to perform operations, comprising:
configuring the devices to capture metadata associated with a customer from images provided by adjacent cameras that are situated proximate to the devices throughout the store;
configuring the devices to process the metadata, to modify the metadata, and to pass modified metadata being processed by a current device to a next device based on a determined direction of travel for the customer identified from the modified metadata and the images;
providing a customer identifier to associate with first metadata processed by a first device upon detection of the customer within the store and maintaining the customer identifier with the modified metadata; and
tracking the customer as the customer travels throughout the store based on the modified metadata, particular devices currently processing the modified metadata, and known locations for each of the particular devices and for each of the cameras within the store;

the devices configured to perform second operations, comprising:
processing the images to track the customer by processing and modifying the metadata associated with the images;
passing, by a current device, the modified metadata to the next device based on the determined direction of travel for the customer identified from the modified metadata and images;
associating, by the first device, the customer identifier for the customer with the modified metadata; and
reporting, by particular devices, portions of the images for the video to the server based on the modified metadata.