Patent ID: 8706843

Claim:
A method for use in a network connector device for previewing images from a network enabled digital video camera, the method comprising: receiving digital network traffic from the network enabled digital video camera via a first network connector; sending the received digital network traffic to a first digital network via a second network connector, wherein the digital network traffic is substantially unaltered; receiving a copy of digital network traffic containing image information from the first digital network; and sending the copy of digital network traffic to a second digital network via a third network connector while sending the digital network traffic to the first digital network via the second network connector; wherein sending the copy of digital network traffic to the second digital network includes: buffering the received copy of digital network traffic in a network traffic buffer; selecting, from the buffered digital network traffic, specific digital network traffic sent via at least one predefined protocol; identifying a network session, from the buffered digital network traffic, containing image information; tracking the identified network session containing image information; extracting image information from the tracked network session containing image information; buffering the extracted image information in an image information buffer; allocating image information buffered in the image information buffer; arranging the allocated image information into at least one image sequence of related images, wherein each image sequence of related images is a sequence of images belonging to a communication session between the network enabled digital camera and a camera viewing client accessing the first digital network; deleting non-allocated image information from the image information buffer; and sending the at least one image sequence of related images over the second digital network via the third network connector using a server.