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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 2018
Filed:
Feb. 13, 2015
Oath Inc., New York, NY (US);
Austin Shoemaker, San Francisco, CA (US);
Howard Law, Brisbane, CA (US);
Hamoun Parvizi, South San Francisco, CA (US);
Venkat Krishnaraj, San Francisco, CA (US);
Soujanya Bhumkar, Palo Alto, CA (US);
OATH INC., New York, NY (US);
Abstract
Disclosed is a method and system for automatically forming a group to share a media file or adding the media file to an existing group. The method and system includes receiving, by a processor, a media file comprising an image, identifying, by the processor, the face of a first person in the image and the face of a second person in the image, identifying, by the processor, a first profile of the first person from the face of the first person and a second profile of the second person from the face of the second person, automatically forming, by the processor, a group of recipients in a messaging application, the forming of the group of recipients based on the first profile and the second profile, the group of recipients comprising the first person and the second person; and sharing, by the processor, the media file with the group.