# US 2018/0324126 A1 · Social media interaction aggregation for duplicate image posts > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2018/0324126 A1 - Document ID: US20180324126A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 15/849,264 - Filed: 2017-12-20 - Published: 2018-11-08 - Earliest claimed: 2017-05-03 - Assignees: International Business Machines Corporation - Applicants: International Business Machines Corporation - Inventors: Robert H. Grant; Jeremy A. Greenberger; Trudy L. Hewitt; Jana H. Jenkins - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20180324126A1 ## CPC - G06Q 10/10: Office automation; Time management - G06Q 10/40: Business processes related to social networking or social networking services - H04L 51/212: using filtering or selective blocking - H04L 51/224: providing notification on incoming messages, e.g. pushed notifications of received messages - H04L 51/52: for supporting social networking services - H04L 67/306: User profiles - G06Q: INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR - H04L: TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) ## Abstract A social media platform is searched by a computer to identify a set of duplicate images including a first image that was posted to the platform by a first user and a second image that was posted to the platform by a second user. A notification is provided by the computer to the first user and the second user indicating that the set of duplicate images exists. A host is selected by the computer for a single consolidated image of the set of duplicate images. The first image or the second image is used by the computer to provide the single consolidated image. One or more social media interactions associated with the first image are consolidated by the computer with one or more social media interactions associated with the second image to generate a single set of social media interactions for the single consolidated image. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A computer implemented method for detecting duplicate images on a social media platform, the method comprising: searching, by the computer, a social media platform to identify a set of duplicate images comprising at least a first image that was posted to the social media platform, and a second image that was posted to the social media platform, wherein the second image is a duplicate of the first image; providing, by the computer, a notification to at least one of the first user or the second user indicating that the set of duplicate images exists; selecting, by the computer, a single consolidated image from the set of duplicate images by using the first image or the second image, or both the first image and the second image, to provide the single consolidated image; and consolidating, by the computer, one or more social media interactions associated with the first image with one or more social media interactions associated with the second image to generate a single set of social media interactions for the single consolidated image. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein the first image was posted to the social media platform by a first user, and the second image was posted to the social media platform by a second user, and wherein the searching is performed by the computer analyzing at least one social media data similarity between the first image and the second image, the at least one social media data similarity comprising an individual, a group of individuals, an object, or a group of objects being associated with a tag in both the first image and the second image, and wherein the tag comprises a label that a user attaches to the individual, the group of individuals, the object, or the group of objects, that identifies or describes the individual, the group of individuals, the object, or the group of objects. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The computer-implemented method of claim 1 further comprising the computer selecting a host for the single consolidated image, wherein the searching is performed by the computer analyzing at least one social media data similarity between the first image and the second image, the at least one social media data similarity comprising or one or more users posting a like indicator, a thumbs-up indicator, or another approval indicator to both the first image and the second image. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The computer-implemented method of claim 1 further comprising the computer performing a programmatic analysis approach to select the single consolidated image as the first image or the second image, or to select for removal a single image of the set of duplicate images comprising the first image and the second image, or to broker a sharing of the single consolidated image between two or more users. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) The computer-implemented method of claim 4 further comprising the computer associating a corresponding user profile with each respective image of the set of duplicate images, and the computer employing a cognitive evaluation that considers one or more image similarities between any image in the set of duplicate images and at least one additional image that is not in the set of duplicate images on each of a plurality of corresponding user profiles that are associated with the set of duplicate images. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The computer-implemented method of claim 5 wherein the one or more image similarities comprise one or more identical tagged individuals, one or more identical tagged groups of individuals, one or more identical tagged objects, or one or more identical tagged groups of objects, or an identification of a similar scenery or a similar image background, and the one or more image similarities are identified using a pixel-by-pixel image analysis procedure. ### Claim 7 (depends on 4) The computer-implemented method of claim 4 wherein the computer uses the programmatic analysis approach to automatically select a host for the single consolidated image from among a first host associated with the first image and a second host associated with the second image by the computer analyzing any comments associated with the first image and the second image, the computer selecting the first host for the single consolidated image in response to the first image being associated with a greatest number of comments than the second image, and the computer selecting the second host for the single consolidated image in response to the second image being associated with an equal or greater number of comments than the first image. ### Claim 8 (depends on 4) The computer-implemented method of claim 4 wherein the computer uses the programmatic analysis approach to automatically select a host for the single consolidated image from among a first host associated with the first image and a second host associated with the second image by the computer comparing a first upload time for the first image and a second upload time for the second image, the computer selecting the first host for the single consolidated image in response to the first image being associated with a shorter upload time than the second image, and the computer selecting the second host for the single consolidated image in response to the second image being associated with an equal or shorter upload time than the first image. ### Claim 9 (depends on 4) The computer-implemented method of claim 4 wherein the computer uses the programmatic analysis approach to automatically select a host for the single consolidated image from among a first host associated with the first image and a second host associated with the second image by the computer comparing a total number of like indicators, thumbs-up indicators, or approval indicators for the first image with a total number of like indicators, thumbs-up indicators, or approval indicators for the second image, the computer selecting the first host for the single consolidated image in response to the first image being associated with a greater number of like indicators, thumbs-up indicators, or approval indicators than the second image, and the computer selecting the second host for the single consolidated image in response to the second image being associated with an equal or greater number of like indicators, thumbs-up indicators, or approval indicators than the first image.