Patent ID: 9491414
Filing Date: 2016-11-08
CPC Classification: G08B,H04L,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A video security system for selecting and displaying content on user devices, comprising: one or more security cameras that provide the content in video streams over a security network; client applications executing on the user devices that display the video streams, and select a bit rate for each of the video streams; and a streaming server that accepts the video streams from the security cameras, and provides the client applications with the video streams having different bit rates determined by the client applications; wherein each of the client applications displays each of the video streams within panes of a grid on a display of the user devices, the panes including one or more periphery panes for displaying lower bit rate video streams and one or more focus panes for displaying higher bit rate video streams, the client applications, in response to users selecting a video stream, requesting the streaming server to provide a higher bit rate video stream for the selected video stream and a lower bit rate for another video stream.