Patent ID: 8117252

Claim:
A stand-alone, WAN/LAN IP based video-monitoring/recording/playback system comprising: a centralized server machine having an internal web server engine, a user account management system, and a built-in network video recorder (NVR); a non-volatile storage device for archival of digital video frames; a network switch/access point and/or router for interconnecting the components including at least the server and IP devices including at least IP cameras or IP video servers; an architecture such that viewing and management consoles, external hard drives, and cameras reside locally on the internal subnet of the system, or on any remote network connected to the system using the WAN or internet; a set of HTML pages that are exported to a connecting browser for viewing, playback, and system management whereby all remote access is effected using standard browsers without remote client software, further comprising means for overlapping recording files so that any two time sequential files contain the same replicated video at the end of the first file that exists at the beginning of the second file.