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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:
Sep. 08, 2020

Filed:

Sep. 12, 2017
Applicant:

Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);

Inventors:

Robert Michael Baldwin, San Francisco, CA (US);

Paul Francois Carduner, Seattle, WA (US);

Andrew Chung, San Francisco, CA (US);

Dirk John Stoop, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Assignee:

Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/08 (2006.01); G06Q 10/10 (2012.01); G06Q 50/00 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 10/10 (2013.01); G06Q 50/01 (2013.01); H04L 67/306 (2013.01);
Abstract

Techniques to share images in a social networking system. In an embodiment, an image is received from a first user, the image is associated with a first archive of the first user within a social networking system, and the image is associated with a second archive of a second user within the social networking system without the social networking system receiving a request from the second user to download the image. The image may be received from a mobile device. The image may be captured by a camera of a mobile device. The image may be automatically uploaded from a mobile device. A request may be received from the second user to include the image in the second archive associated with the second user. Associating the image with the second archive of the second user may comprise including a link to the image in the second archive.


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