Patent ID: 8230349

Claim:
A device enabling interactive collaboration among video surveillance operators, said device comprising: an enumeration identification source for obtaining meta data sufficient to recreate a video display of an incident; a meta data composer for creating a message said message including the meta data sufficient to recreate the video display of the incident; a transport layer for transmitting said message, including said meta data sufficient to recreate said video display of said incident, to a display device; and the display device for displaying said message, including said meta data sufficient to recreate the video display of the incident, wherein the message is packaged using the meta data composer and transmitted using the transport layer to the display device, wherein the packaged message comprises a message ID, a source ID, an analytics geometric matrix, annotation text, and a destination operation ID array; and wherein the display device comprises an actualization engine having commands for displaying the message, including the meta data sufficient to recreate the video display of the incident on the display device.