US 11,659,235 B1
Event information collection system
Angelica N. White, Spring Branch, TX (US); Matthew C. Dahlman, Selma, TX (US); Brian Tougas, Spring Branch, TX (US); and Gideon B. Luck, Wylie, TX (US)
Assigned to United Services Automobile Association (USAA), San Antonio, TX (US)
Filed by United Services Automobile Association (USAA), San Antonio, TX (US)
Filed on Apr. 18, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/723,221.
Application 17/723,221 is a continuation of application No. 17/037,459, filed on Sep. 29, 2020, granted, now 11,336,955.
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04N 21/44 (2011.01); G06F 16/73 (2019.01); G06V 20/40 (2022.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); H04N 21/433 (2011.01); H04N 21/431 (2011.01); H04N 21/4223 (2011.01); G01S 19/01 (2010.01)
CPC H04N 21/44008 (2013.01) [G01S 19/01 (2013.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 16/73 (2019.01); G06V 20/41 (2022.01); H04N 21/4223 (2013.01); H04N 21/4312 (2013.01); H04N 21/4334 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for requesting video data associated with an event, the method comprising: determining an event location and an event time associated with the event; identifying A) a geographic range of interest associated with the event location and
B) a time duration of interest associated with the event time;
determining video files to identify, wherein the video files comprise video data associated with the event, wherein the video files are located in at least two video storage sources;
generating query parameters for querying meta-data associated with the video data stored in the at least two video storage sources;
automatically querying, using the query parameters, the at least two video storage sources to obtain the video files of the video data that correspond to the geographic range of interest and the time duration of interest,
wherein a first video storage source of the at least two video storage sources includes at least video data acquired by cameras associated with vehicles,
wherein a second video storage source of the at least two video storage sources is a publicly available video aggregator that provides a point of access for publicly searching metadata of a plurality of videos posted by a plurality of entities; and
in response to obtaining a quantity of video files for determining a circumstance of the event, terminating the querying.