Abstract: A cloud-based network service provides intelligent access to surveillance camera views across multiple locations and environments. A cloud computing server maintains a database of time periods of interest captured by the cameras connected to the network. The server also maintains defined motion data associated with recorded video content. Video segments are generated from the recorded video content according to both the motion data and the time periods of interest. The server causes the video segments to be transmitted to a user interface, where a user can remotely monitor an environment through the video segments.

Abstract: A cloud-based network service provides intelligent access to surveillance camera views across multiple locations and environments. A cloud computing server maintains a database of the views captured by the cameras connected to the network. The database is indexed by one or more classes according to tags characterizing the views obtained by each camera. In response to a user search string, the string is robustly interpreted against the classes and other indicators to search the database and determine a selection of views. The server causes the selection of views to be transmitted to a user interface, where a user can remotely monitor an environment through the selected views.

Abstract: A method of creating a zone of interest in a video scene comprising the steps of capturing a video scene, transmitting a captured video scene over a network, receiving a captured video scene from the network, enabling a user to identify a portion of a captured video scene to be a zone of interest, replicating the portion of the captured video scene identified by the user as a zone of interest, rendering the video scene in a first window, and rendering the replicated portion of the captured video scene in a second window independent of the first window.