Patent ID: 7743064

Claim:
A method for managing fixed-area video segments from at least one fixed-area security camera using a media asset management system, the method comprising: collecting the fixed-area video segments from the at least one fixed-area security camera; associating corresponding geospatial data with each collected fixed-area video segment; creating, by the media asset management system, a search thesaurus comprising a plurality of search descriptors cross-referenced to one another, the search descriptors being linked together by a hierarchical relationship, an associative relationship and an equivalence relationship; the hierarchical relationship being defined by search descriptors comprising broader and narrower terms linked together, the associative relationship being defined by search descriptors comprising terms that are linked with similar or related terms where the relationship between the terms is non-hierarchical, and the equivalence relationship comprising synonyms; associating at least one respective search descriptor from the search thesaurus with each collected fixed-area video segment; storing the collected fixed-area video segments, associated geospatial data and associated search descriptors on the media asset management system; receiving at least one user search query, with the at least one user search query including geospatial data; comparing the at least one received user search query with the created search thesaurus for identifying at least one additional search query; and retrieving, by the media asset management system, at least one stored fixed-area video segment and at least one map, with the at least one retrieved fixed-area video segment corresponding to the at least one received user search query and the at least one identified additional search query, and with the at least one retrieved map corresponding to the associated geospatial data of the at least one retrieved fix-area video segment.