Patent Document ID: 9600494
Application ID: 14163169
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method, comprising: receiving, at an edge device in a network, a stream of data packets originated by a visual data source, the data packets including at least one of video data, image data, and geospatial data, wherein the edge device acts as a local proxy device within its respective local area network (LAN) between the network and a core network to forward data packets into and out of the network; extracting, at the edge device, a visual data attribute from the stream of data packets; vectorizing, at the edge device, the extracted visual data attribute via quantization vectors; indexing, at the edge device, the vectorized visual data attribute in a schema-less database that stores indexed visual data attributes; receiving, at the edge device, a search query including a vectorized visual data attribute to be searched; and searching, at the edge device, the indexed visual data attributes for at least one candidate visual data attribute comparable to the vectorized visual data attribute to be searched.