Appeal 2007-1743
Application 10/131,550
STATEMENT OF THE CASE
Appellant invented a video surveillance system that allows
simultaneous viewing and control of video resource(s) by multiple viewers.
Specifically, the system comprises at least one video surveillance camera
and at least one monitoring station. The system utilizes a main control loop
that, among other things, initalizes the network and loads all configurable
features. The main loop also spawns independent threads of execution to
serve each communications connection. To this end, a single user control
loop executes in each thread spawned by the main control loop.1 Claim 1 is
illustrative:
1. A surveillance method, comprising the steps of:
directing a video surveillance camera for surveillance monitoring,
providing a digital network,
connecting a computer to said video surveillance camera and said
digital network,
providing a first software loop that performs main control functions
including initializing a network, loading configurable features, and starting
subsequent software control loops for single user control that execute in
separate threads,
providing subsequent software loops that perform single user control
functions including executing associated features, and
providing a system for connection initialization.
1 See generally Specification ¶¶ 0022-26.
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