US 8,798,401 B1Granted

Image sharing with facial recognition models

AssigneeShutterfly, Inc.

InventorsAndrea R. Johnson, Matthew J. Johnson, Nico Toutenhoofd

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Abstract

An image sharing server provides several ways of sharing images between users. After a user contributes images to the image sharing server, the user can interact with the image sharing server to identify and tag people in the images, share the images with other users, and organize the images into memory boxes. Memory boxes can also be shared between users, and multiple users can be granted the ability to add images to a shared memory box. In addition, the image sharing server can prompt a user to share his or her images with other users who contributed related images. The image sharing server also performs facial recognition to automatically identify people in images, and facial recognition models can be shared between users.

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Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method for sharing a set of images, comprising:

creating a plurality of memory boxes at an image sharing server;
storing an account identifier in each of the memory boxes;
allowing each of the memory boxes to be managed by a user;
storing a plurality of image links in a first memory box, wherein the first memory box is managed by a first user, wherein the image links point to images stored in a computer device external to the first memory box;
allowing the first user to add or remove image links in the first memory box;
storing sharing privileges of at least a second user, wherein the sharing privileges define a right of the second user to view the images pointed by the image links in the first memory box;
and
automatically determining at least some of the sharing privileges to the second user by analyzing the images pointed by the image links in the first memory box.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.