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8x8 Awarded Video Security Patent |
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Written by Adam Gosling
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Tuesday, 17 April 2007 |
Voice and Video over IP specialist, 8x8 is growing its patent
portfolio, most recently with the addition of a security video patent
that will allow it to do remote surveillance.
8x8 is the company behind US VoIP service provider Packet8 which offers
broadband telephony and videophone communications services.
The new patent could seean expansion of the company's business focus
into the security market as the new technology allows for visual
monitoring over communication networks.
The new patent is titled "Surveillance Method and System" and speaks in
part of two communications systems coupled together transmitting image
data. It says the system includes, in part; "a programmable
surveillance system including a first computer arrangement for
processing data including image data, and including a camera configured
and arranged to capture images, wherein the captured images are
processed as data by the first computer arrangement, and wherein the
programmable system is configured and arranged to receive the request
for image data from the first communications system, and, in response
to the request, to automatically access and deliver image data to the
second communications system; and a second computer arrangement for
communicatively coupling with the second communications system, and for
processing data including image data, and configured and arranged to
retrieve image data delivered by the first computer arrangement.
Since its establishment in 1987, 8x8 has been awarded sixty-seven
United States patents covering a variety of voice and video
communications technologies.
www.packet8.net
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