Patent decision

BL number

O/345/20

Concerning rights in

GB1509562.3

Hearing Officer

Mr P Thorpe

Decision date

4 August 2020

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Motorola Solutions, Inc.

Provisions discussed

Patents Act 1977 Section 1(2)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The invention is concerned with video tagging and analytics and more particularly to systems and methods for using Computer Assisted Dispatch (CAD) incident reports for video tagging, searching, analytics or the like. The method involves extracting keywords from a CAD incident report and creating a small, focused, and incident-specific dictionary on which to perform video searching in real-time or later. The description suggests that the small, focused, and incident- specific dictionary increases tagging accuracy and reduces tagging processing time with respect to video analytics. Further, the invention can continually update the incident- specific dictionary as the CAD incident report is updated and as the incident of interest plays out. An alert can also be provided.

The Hearing Officer applying Aerotel and considering the signposts provided by AT&T/CVON found the invention as currently claimed and as claimed in an auxiliary claim set to be excluded as a progam for a computer as such. The application was refused.

Full decision O/345/20 332Kb