Coordinating communication and/or storage based on image analysis

#The present invention, in some embodiments thereof, relates to media content distribution and, more specifically, but not exclusively, to media content distribution based on location.

#There are an increasingly large number of devices that have network connectivity. Over the years, network connectivity has been extended to appliances such as digital cameras and cell phones or tablets with imagers. Various services and applications currently exist with the goal of establishing data connectivity between appliances or people in different network locations. The growth of the Internet and other types of networks has contributed to the numerous networking applications that currently exist. Moreover, the popularity of social networks coupled with increased functionality from portable electronic devices provides opportunities to share and distribute information instantly over networks.

#According to some embodiments of the present invention, there is provided a method of managing a media file storage relocation process. The method comprises receiving location data indicative a user geographical location each of a plurality of users during a monitored period, the location data is acquired by recording outputs of a location module of each of a plurality of client terminals of the plurality of users, receiving a capturing or uploading geographical location and time of each of a plurality of media files, using the file capturing or uploading geographical location and time to identify a spatiotemporal proximity of a group from the plurality of users to respective the media file capturing or uploading geographical location of at least one media file of the plurality of media files during a respective the media file capturing or uploading time, detecting at least one member of the group which is imaged in the at least one media file using a face recognition function, and in response to the detecting, initiating a media file storage relocation process wherein a storage location of the at least one media file is changed from a current storage location to a new storage location associated with the at least one member.

#Some embodiments of the invention are herein described, by way of example only, with reference to the accompanying drawings. With specific reference now to the drawings in detail, it is stressed that the particulars shown are by way of example and for purposes of illustrative discussion of embodiments of the invention. In this regard, the description taken with the drawings makes apparent to those skilled in the art how embodiments of the invention may be practiced.

#In the drawings:

#FIG. 1 is a flowchart of a method of managing the storage of media files by matching, in each of various time intervals, a location of capturing or uploading the media files with a location of various users (as recorded by client terminals) and based on the identification of faces of imaged human subject(s) in the media files, according to some embodiments of the present invention;

#The present invention, in some embodiments thereof, relates to media content distribution and, more specifically, but not exclusively, to media content distribution based on location.

#According to some embodiments of the present invention, there are provided methods and systems of managing storage of media files, such as images, portable network graphics (PNG), joint photographic experts group (JPEG), and graphics interchange format (GIF) files and video files based on imaging of human persons, referred to herein as users, in these media files. The relation may include deletion of a copy in one storage location, for example in a storage (e.g. local storage in a device used to capture the media file or an associated cloud storage) of a user who captured an media file and/or a creation of a copy of the media file in a storage of one or more other users who are imaged in the media files. For brevity, a copy of a media file and a media file may be referred to herein interchangeably. Storage relocation may be performed automatically and/or based on user inputs from the imaged user(s) or the capturing user.

#Optionally, content in the media file may be automatically edited based on the identity of the imaged users and/or the social connection thereof to the capturing user and/or the connection therebetween.