Patent ID: 8250616

Claim:
A method for processing multimedia content captured from a plurality of locations via one or more capturing devices, comprising: obtaining streams of multimedia content from one or more capturing devices, the capturing devices identifying a type of content being captured or location of capture, wherein the capturing devices are mobile capturing devices and the multimedia content captured by the capturing devices is of live content; enabling search of the multimedia content; presenting streams of the multimedia content conforming to the search at the receiving devices; enabling substantial real-time feedback from the receiving devices to one or more capturing devices that provide the streams of multimedia content, the substantial real-time feedback configured to influence actions taken by selected ones of the capturing devices during capture, wherein the real-time feedback includes votes used to influence actions at the capturing devices that serve to modify the streams of the multimedia content presented at the receiving devices; and aggregating the votes obtained from the receiving devices and communicating results from the aggregation to the capturing devices so as to influence modification of the stream captured by the capturing devices.