Patent ID: 8237856

Claim:
A system comprising: a video recording camera comprising: an optical sensor through which the video recording camera is to receive an input image signal; a processor coupled to the optical sensor, the processor configured to process the input image signal received from the optical sensor into an encoded video data stream; a non-volatile storage medium, wherein the storage medium is coupled to the processor and is to store, locally in the video recording camera, the encoded video data stream as recorded video data; a video recording data server remote from the video recording camera, the video recording data server comprising a processor to provide third party access to one or more video frames recorded by the video recording camera and stored on a mass storage medium accessible to the video recording data server; and a cellular-enabled wireless communication handset communicatively coupled to the video recording camera over a wireless communication link, wherein the wireless communication handset is to access, over the wireless communication link, the video data recorded in the non-volatile storage medium and is to transmit the accessed video data to the video recording data server in response to receiving a video control command from the video recording data server.