Patent ID: 8565228
Filing Date: 2013-10-22
Classification: G08B,H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method for selecting video streams to be transmitted to a client node, comprising: receiving a set of video stream values at a receiving node, wherein each video stream value is smaller in size than each corresponding video stream and comprises a numeric value, a segment of a video stream or a vector of values, wherein a video stream value indicates a priority of a corresponding video stream, wherein each of the video stream values indicates a degree to which motion is present in the corresponding video stream; receiving a set of display criteria at the receiving node, wherein the set of display criteria indicates when to transmit the video streams to the client node; ranking the video streams based on the set of display criteria; selecting a subset of highest ranked video streams based on the set of display criteria and the set of video stream values to form a subset of the highest ranked video streams, wherein the subset of the highest ranked video streams comprises less than all of the video streams; and transmitting, after the selecting and the ranking, only the subset of the highest ranked video streams via a network to the client node in accordance with the set of display criteria, wherein a node that is remote to the receiving node transmits the subset of the highest ranked video streams to the client node.