Patent ID: 8824750

Claim:
A system comprising: a plurality of gateways, each gateway coupled to a video recording device; and a web server associated with the plurality of gateways, the web server configured to identify one or more gateways of the plurality of gateways using metadata associated with a picture of a face, and to distribute the picture of the face to the identified gateways based on the metadata, the metadata comprising an identification of the picture of the face, an identification of a source of the picture, and a geographic location of interest, the web server comprising: a facial receiver module configured to receive the picture of the face and the metadata from one or more sources; a facial recognition engine configured to determine facial features from the picture of the face; a gateway identifier module configured to identify the one or more gateways using the metadata associated with the picture of the face, the gateway identifier module implemented using a processor of the web server; a facial distribution module configured to communicate the picture of the face to the identified one or more gateways; a web-based gateway management module configured to identify a first gateway based on a user profile at a client device, to authenticate with the client device based on the user profile, to authenticate with the first gateway, and to correlate the first gateway with a second gateway based on the user profile; a transport module configured to enable peer-to-peer communication between the first gateway, the second gateway, the client device, and the web server; and a storage device to store the picture of the face, the metadata, and the facial features in different groups based on the metadata, the groups organized by geographic areas, each gateway associated with a corresponding group and a geographic area.