Apparatus for sharing private video streams with public service agencies
A video surveillance service shares image streams with public service agencies in the event of emergency. Nominated agencies establish access credentials at the surveillance service data center. A video stream is shared by a customer administrator's selection of permissions on each camera via privileged web-browser. Permissions enable selection by static meta data such as type, audio, location, motion, and epoch. Video streams of present and past epochs are controlled by time. A public service agency receives an electronic notification from the administrator to present their access credential and a handle for each shared camera of interest. A notification is customized for each public service agency and each event by dynamically generating a link to a secure webserver which records geo-location or network identifiers for validation. Video servers may include virtual machines dedicated to each public service agency but controlled by a customer administrator.
1. An apparatus to couple and decouple public service agencies to private surveillance security video streams under facility administrator control, the apparatus comprising:
a public service agency authentication credential store;
an agency notification circuit to generate and transmit virtual links to virtual machines by obfuscated camera handles (obhandles);
a camera control circuit to enable video streams requested by said obhandles limited by stored parameters for each camera;
a video stream server (video server);
a permissions controller for a plurality of cameras (controller); the controller remotely coupled to
a facility administrator console; the controller further coupled to the video stream server, and
a public service agency account manager circuit (manager), the manager remotely coupled to
at least one browser on a mobile device, and coupled to the video server;
a video stream cache and store;
a public service agency authentication circuit and credential store;
a shared camera permissions circuit to enable streaming metadata and images over a range of time for each shared camera;
a circuit to request a geo-identifier from an authenticated public service agency mobile wireless video display;
a store of blacklist geo-identifiers; and
a circuit to terminate a connection upon matching a blacklist geo-identifier with a geo-identifier received from a mobile wireless video display.
2. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the manager comprises:
a circuit to validate authentication credentials submitted by said public service agency.
3. The apparatus of claim 1 further comprising:
a circuit to receive commands from a facility administrator to set and store parameters for each camera for video streaming.
4. The apparatus of claim 1 further comprising:
a circuit to receive commands from a facility administrator to set permission for streaming video recorded and stored prior to agency notification time.
5. The apparatus of claim 1 further comprising:
a circuit to format a webpage having window frames populated with identifiers of shared cameras; and
a circuit to receive at least one request from a remote browser to transmit at least one video image of a shared camera.
6. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the permissions controller comprises:
stored values of meta data of the camera; and
stored values of streaming permission for live streaming.
7. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the video stream server comprises:
a circuit to receive navigation commands from a browser operated by public service agency user;
a circuit to search forward or backward in time of recordation of the video stream; and
a circuit to transmit at least one video frame according to navigation commands.
8. The apparatus of claim 1 further comprising:
a circuit to request a geo-identifier from an authenticated public service agency mobile video display;
a store of whitelist geo-identifiers (geo-store); and,
a circuit to enable streaming after matching the geo-store with the geo-identifier received from the mobile wireless video display.
9. The apparatus of claim 8 further comprising:
a plurality of virtual machine images with dedicated application programming interface instructions encoded in a computer-readable non-transitory store (vmstore);
a plurality of processor cores (cores) coupled to said vmstore;
a shared memory store;
a video streaming processor coupled by interprocess communication (IPC) to said cores through the shared memory store; and
a circuit to purge processor cores upon facility administrator selection.