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

Claim 0:
1. A method for tracking a customer throughout a store using images and metadata of the images performed by a server and devices situated throughout the store, comprising:
configuring, by the server, the devices situated throughout the store to capture the metadata associated with a customer from images provided by adjacent cameras that are situated proximate to the devices throughout the store, wherein the devices are processing devices;
configuring, by the server, 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;
modifying, by the devices, the metadata based on the configuring;
passing, by a current device, the modified metadata to a next device based on the determined direction of travel for the customer identified from the modified metadata and the images;
providing, by the server, 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;
associating, by the first device, the customer identifier with the first metadata based on the providing;
maintaining, by the first device the customer identifier with the first metadata;
processing, by particular devices, the modified metadata as the customer travels throughout the store based on the modified metadata; and
tracking, by the server, the customer as the customer travels throughout the store based on the modified metadata based on the processing by the particular devices and based on known locations for each of the particular devices and for each of the cameras within the store.