Scanning a real-time media stream to detect one or more faces that are prevalent among a set of media files stored on a user equipment

A method of operating a user equipment (UE):

• recognizing a set of faces within a set of media files stored on the UE;
• identifying a set of prevalent faces based on a set of criteria including a prevalence of one or more faces among the set of media files;
• determining whether any prevalent faces from the set of prevalent faces are present in real-time media;
• performing an action based on whether any prevalent faces are detected from the set of prevalent faces in the real-time media, the action including one or more of:
• adding one or more enhancement effects to the real-time media,
• authorizing a video call to proceed, or
• authorizing access to the UE, and
• wherein the real-time media includes a video feed captured at an external UE that is attempting to originate the video call with the UE.

A user equipment (UE), comprising:

• at least one processor configured to:
• recognize a set of faces within a set of media files stored on the UE;
• identify a set of prevalent faces based on a set of criteria including a prevalence of one or more faces among the set of media files, and wherein the set of criteria is based in part upon one or more file metadata criteria including a degree of similarity between the set of media files containing at least one face among the set of faces, a degree the set of media files containing the at least one face are shared with one or more external entities, a rate the set of media files containing the at least one face are deleted, or any combination thereof;
• determine whether any prevalent faces from the set of prevalent faces are present in the real-time media;
• perform an action based on whether any prevalent faces from the set of prevalent faces are detected in the real-time media, the action including one or more of:
• adding one or more enhancement effects to the real-time media,
• authorizing a communicative operation to proceed, or
• authorizing access to the UE.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium containing instructions stored thereon, which, when executed by a user equipment (UE), cause the UE to perform actions, the instructions comprising:

• at least one instruction to cause the UE to recognize a set of faces within a set of media files stored on the UE;
• at least one instruction to cause the UE to identify a set of prevalent faces based on a set of criteria including a prevalence of one or more faces among the set of media files, and wherein the set of criteria is based in part upon one or more file metadata criteria including a degree of similarity between the set of media files containing at least one face among the set of faces, a degree the set of media files containing the at least one face are shared with one or more external entities, a rate the set of media files containing the at least one face are deleted, or any combination thereof;
• at least one instruction to cause the UE to determine whether any prevalent faces from the set of prevalent faces are present in real-time media;
• at least one instruction to cause the UE to perform an action based on whether any prevalent faces from the set of prevalent faces are detected in the real-time media, the action including one or more of:
• adding one or more enhancement effects to the real-time media,
• authorizing a communicative operation to proceed, or
• authorizing access to the UE.