Propagation of Photographic Images with Social Networking
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsBarry A. Kritt, Sarbajit K. Rakshit
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Abstract
Embodiments of the invention relate to file sharing, and more specifically to sharing image files based on a social networking relationship. A digital image and associated file are created with geotag data that defines an image capture. Data associated with the image capture is stored as image metadata associated with the image file. A hyperlink to a preferred viewing URL is created and established based on a match produced from a comparison of the image file image capture data with at least one physical location identified in an index of cached data. The hyperlink is associated with the image file and directs a viewer to the physical and/or virtual location where the image was captured.
Claims15
A method comprising:
- accessing an image file, the image file including image capture location data defining a location of a device capturing the image file, the image capture location data stored as metadata associated with the image file;
- analyzing an array of cached data, each entry in the array having a set of geotag boundary values defining a geofence for an entity;
- comparing the image file capture location data with at least one entity geotag boundary value identified in the array;
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- responsive to a match from the comparison, creating a hyperlink of a preferred viewing URL for directing a viewer from the image file to the preferred viewing URL.
A computer program product for an image file, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage device having program code embodied therewith, the program code executable by a processor to:
- access an image file, the image file including image capture location data defining a location of a device capturing the image file, the image capture location data stored as metadata associated with the image file;
- analyze an array of cached data, each entry in the array having a set of geotag boundary values, the values defining a geofence for an entity;
- compare the image file capture location data with at least one entity geotag boundary value identified in the array;
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- responsive to a match from the comparison, create a hyperlink of a preferred viewing URL to direct a viewer from the image file to the preferred viewing URL.
A system comprising:
- a processing unit in communication with memory;
- an electronic image file, the image file including image capture location data defining a location of a device capturing the image file, the image capture location data stored as metadata associated with the image file;
- in response to access of the image file, a director, in communication with the processing unit, to analyze an array of cached data, each entry in the array having a set of geotag boundary values, the values defining a geofence for an entity;
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- an image manager to compare the image file capture location data with at least one entity geotag boundary value identified in the array, and in response to a match produced by the comparison, the image manager to create a hyperlink of a preferred viewing URL to direct the image file to the preferred viewing URL.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.