Patent ID: 7672370

Claim:
A volatile or non-volatile storage device storing instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause: receiving, from a second video analysis application, a call to read, from a memory, first analytic information that is associated with video data; wherein the video data includes (a) a frame that corresponds to a video stream and (b) the first analytic information; wherein the first analytic information is (i) generated by a first video analysis application that is different than the second video analysis application about the content of the frame (ii) based on a prior analysis of the frame by the first video analysis application, and (iii) different than the frame; and providing the first analytic information to the second video analysis application to allow the second video analysis application to examine the first analytic information to determine whether or not the second video analysis application is to perform a particular set of one or more on-the-fly analysis operations on the frame.