Patent ID: 7979692

Claim:
A system intended for use in remote digitized video or audio teleconferencing, monitoring, or surveillance, and data transmission comprising: one or more hardware collection units addressable individually or collectively via synchronous or asynchronous transmission protocols with encryption available to the transmission packet level; one or more client receiving units addressable individually or collectively via synchronous or asynchronous transmission protocols, with encryption available to the transmission packet level; at least one gateway server which receives units of streaming digital data which contain embedded authentication levels, control restrictions, methods of encryption, and dynamic engineering control parameters from the one or more collection units, or client receiving units and storing the streaming digital data under the control of a database management system, wherein each gateway server is adapted to respond to commands from the client receiving units, and to provide the corresponding commands to remotely control the one or more collection units and provides control feedback information to the client receiving units, wherein the units of streaming data are each provided with one or more indicator fields, and wherein the indicator fields indicate identities of authenticated entities together with three or more of their authentication levels, control restrictions, encryption methods, and dynamic engineering control parameters, and wherein if a signal failure of a signal from the one or more collection units is detected by a client receiving unit or the gateway server, a discontinuity indicator is inserted into the streaming data, and wherein the gateway server consists of a client receiving unit which receives the streaming digital data.