Mobile device smart media filtering

A mobile device, comprising:

• a user interface;
• a communication interface;
• a camera;
• a memory;
• a processing unit configured to:
• cause a media filtering application to be downloaded via the communication interface from a remote network device over a network;
• receive, from the camera, media files at the mobile device;
• execute the media filtering application to:
• automatically tag each of the media files with data or meta-data related to:
• 1) other mobile users proximate to the mobile device,
• 2) a current location of the mobile device,
• 3) facial recognition analysis applied to each of the media files,
• 4) subject or content recognition analysis applied to each of the media files,
• 5) a current date, and/or
• 6) a usage history of each of the media files;
• and
• store the tagged media files in the memory;
• receive, via the user interface, a user request to search the media files;
• further execute the media filtering application to:
• search, responsive to the user request, the tags, comprising the data or meta-data, to generate a filtered set of media files;
• and
• display, via the user interface, the filtered set of media files.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium containing instructions executable by at least one processor, the computer-readable medium comprising:

• one or more instructions for receiving, at a mobile device, first media files;
• one or more instructions for automatically tagging each of the first media files with tags, comprising data or meta-data, based on:
• 1) other mobile users proximate to the mobile device,
• 2) a current location of the mobile device,
• 3) facial recognition analysis applied to each of the first media files,
• 4) subject or content recognition analysis applied to each of the first media files,
• 5) a current date, and/or
• 6) a usage history associated with each of the first media files;
• one or more instructions for storing the tagged first media files;
• one or more instructions for receiving a user request to search the first media files;
• one or more instructions for searching, responsive to the user request, the tags, comprising the data or meta-data, to generate a filtered set of media files;
• and
• one or more instructions for presenting the filtered set of media files to a user of the mobile device.