Patent ID: 9721167
Date: 2017-08-01
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06K

Claim:
1. A biometric notification system (“BNS”) with facial recognition and related services, the system comprising: plural digital video cameras (C a data processing system including a processing facility and a database facility; a network interconnecting the video cameras and the data processing facility; a video frame acquired from a video camera C a first facial feature set derived from the first content; a database of the database facility includes plural cases, each case identifies a person by linking a name with a second content, a second facial feature set, and a case group; a matched case discovered when the processing facility finds the first feature set matches a second feature set; a message sent to one or more interested recipients when the processing facility finds that message trigger criteria are met; wherein message trigger criteria include a requirement that a matched case is discovered; a service for recognizing persons of interest; wherein the message trigger criteria include a requirement that the case group of the matched case identify a person known to site operators as a person of interest; a recipient selection service based on a case group/user group association; wherein the interested recipients are limited to members of one or more user groups, each such user group associated with a case group of the matched case; a service for selecting an interested recipient based on proximity to an event; wherein the first site is a building, Z wherein the BNS determines the building occupant closest to the door by limiting the cases available for comparison to site staff and by searching zone Zx and adjacent zones for a matched case.