Patent ID: 8527655

Claim:
A method of effecting the transmission of video data across a network of resources, the network including incompatible resources, the method comprising: identifying a plurality of security devices in an area to be secured, the security devices for capturing and conveying audio and video data of the area to be secured; receiving information from at least one of the identified security devices, the information indicating a source device and a destination device, the source device originating the audio and video data and the destination device to receive the audio and video data; identifying a plurality of paths between the source device and the destination device, each path defined by a set of resources, the set of resources including resources needed to transmit the video data and audio data across any incompatible resources in the path, wherein at least one path diverges into two branches for at least one hop in the path resulting from at least one resource that is not capable of transmitting both the video data and the audio data, the incompatibility requiring a transformation for transmission across the incompatible resource; determining, based on available video transformation and A/D (analog to digital) conversion resources for the plurality of paths, a path for transmission of the video data, based on the set of resources for that path, a distance between the source device and the destination device along that path, and a quality of the video data maintained by that path; and effecting the transmission of the video data across the determined path.