Patent ID: 8396997

Claim:
A system for surveillance comprising: a) an external storage device connected to a computing device; said external storage device being capable of exchanging data with a registration and matching service via said computing device through a data communication network; and b) a monitoring device; said monitoring device being capable of exchanging data with said registration and matching service via said data communication network; wherein said registration and matching service receives at least one unique identification code from said external storage device and said monitoring device and uses it to establish a unique pairing between said external storage device and said monitoring device; said unique pairing being stored in at least one of said external storage device and said monitoring device so that subsequent data exchange between them can be directly established using said unique pairing without the need of re-registration; wherein said data communication network is Internet, said registration and matching service is hosted by a web server with a unique URL and said external storage device further comprises a built-in program; said build-in program is loaded and executed when said external storage device is connected to said computing device, causing said computing device to connect to said URL; wherein said at least one unique identification code is selected from a group consisting of (a) said external storage device, (b) said monitoring device and (c) a combination thereof and said at least one unique identification code is sent by the respective device to said web server that hosts said registration and matching service; wherein said registration and monitoring service further comprises a software module that receives an IP addresses of said external storage device and said monitoring device, and prompts a user to enter said at least one unique identification code of said external storage device and said monitoring device; said software module further uses said at least one unique identification code to establish the unique pairing between said IP addresses of said external storage device and said IP address of said monitoring device; wherein once said unique pairing is established, said registration and matching service performs one of the actions selected from: I. sending said IP address of said monitoring device to said external storage device; II. sending said IP address of said computing device to said monitoring device; and III. a combination thereof; so that said external storage device establishes direct communication with said monitoring device for subsequent data exchange.