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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 2016

Filed:

Sep. 22, 2015
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventor:

Brian J. Cragun, Rochester, MN (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 9/80 (2006.01); H04N 5/77 (2006.01); H04N 5/247 (2006.01); H04N 5/765 (2006.01); H04N 7/18 (2006.01); H04N 21/2743 (2011.01); H04N 5/225 (2006.01); H04N 5/372 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/772 (2013.01); H04N 5/2258 (2013.01); H04N 5/247 (2013.01); H04N 5/372 (2013.01); H04N 5/765 (2013.01); H04N 7/18 (2013.01); H04N 21/2743 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method, system, and article of manufacture that allows amateur camera operators to share video and audio with other amateur camera operators at the same event over a cooperative, ad hoc network. One embodiment of the present invention comprises forming an ad hoc network comprising a plurality of recording devices, and communicating audiovisual signals between the plurality of recording devices in the ad hoc network. In some embodiments, this method may further comprise transmitting a replay request to the plurality of recording devices and receiving an audiovisual signal corresponding to the replay request, transmitting a push request to the plurality of recording devices, and/or transmitting a message to at least one of the plurality of recording devices.


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