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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 2019

Filed:

Jun. 22, 2009
Applicants:

Brenda Castro, Helsinki, FI;

James Francis Reilly, Helsinki, FI;

Matti Johannes Sillanpää, Helsinki, FI;

Toni Peter Strandell, Helsinki, FI;

Jyri Kullervo Virtanen, Espoo, FI;

Mikko Antero Nurmi, Tampere, FI;

Inventors:

Brenda Castro, Helsinki, FI;

James Francis Reilly, Helsinki, FI;

Matti Johannes Sillanpää, Helsinki, FI;

Toni Peter Strandell, Helsinki, FI;

Jyri Kullervo Virtanen, Espoo, FI;

Mikko Antero Nurmi, Tampere, FI;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G06Q 10/10 (2012.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01); G06Q 50/00 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 10/10 (2013.01); G06Q 50/01 (2013.01); H04L 51/04 (2013.01);
Abstract

An approach is provided for recognizing one or more people from media content and determining if the one or more people are associated with a social networking service. A request is received from a user equipment specifying a media content. Electronically processing of the media content to recognize one or more people is initiated. It is determined whether the one or more people are associated with a member account of a social networking service. A prompting of the user is initiated with an option based on the determination.


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