Patent ID: 8291484
Filing Date: 2012-10-16
Classification: H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A video and data recording, management and access system comprising: a customer network, including a VPN client, operable to video-graphically record video and Point of Sale (POS) events and to generate data from the POS events, wherein the customer network comprises a video camera to generate video images of the video and POS events and a POS device adapted to collect POS data, and wherein the customer network is operable to transmit the video images and the POS data using a communications network; a user network operable to access the video images and POS data on the customer network; one or more network address translating modules (NATs) and/or firewalls protecting the customer network and the user network from public access; a data center coupled to the customer network; a virtual private network (VPN) server of the data center coupled to the customer network via a virtual private network (VPN) established by the VPN client, and coupled to the user network via a public Internet and an exception in a firewall of the VPN server; and a VPN established by the VPN client to the VPN server, wherein the VPN server associates a public IP address with the VPN client and makes the public IP address available to the user network via the exception in the firewall of the VPN server as well as a public Internet connection, and wherein the user network accesses the video images and POS data on the customer network by directing communications to the public IP address, which the VPN server routes to the customer network via the VPN.