Patent ID: 9489773
Filing Date: 2016-11-08
CPC Classification: G06F,G06T,H04L,H04N,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method for performing visual search and augmented reality in a communication system comprising an Internet network attached to a mobile network, the method comprising: storing in at least one intermediate node in the mobile network, data related to objects that are geographically related to the at least one intermediate node; transmitting a request for metadata from a user equipment in the mobile network towards the Internet network via the at least one intermediate node, which request comprises object recognition data; de-tunnelling and intercepting the request in an intermediate node of the at least one intermediate node; matching the request against a filter function in the intermediate node and if the matching is successful, further matching the object recognition data in the intercepted request against object recognition data stored in the intermediate node; and forwarding metadata to the user equipment if the further matching is successful and existence of metadata is established.