SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SHARING IMAGES IN A SOCIAL NETWORK

• US 20140129627A1
• Filed: 11/02/2012
• Published: 05/08/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/02/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Inventors: Baldwin, Robert Michael, Carduner, Paul Francois, Stoop, Dirk John, Chung, Andrew
• Granted Patent: US 9,773,228 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/204
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles

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.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method comprising:

receiving, by a computer system, an image from a first user;

associating, by the computer system, the image with a first archive of the first user within a social networking system; and

associating, by the computer system, the image with a second archive of a second user within the social networking system without receiving a request from the second user to download the image.

2. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the first user and the second user are friends within the social networking system.

3. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the associating the image with the second archive is based on the second user being tagged in the image.

4. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the image is received from a mobile device.

5. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the image is captured by a camera of a mobile device.

6. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the image is automatically uploaded from a mobile device.

7. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the image is automatically uploaded when a social networking application of a mobile device is running.

8. The computer implemented method of claim 1, further comprising receiving a request by the first user to share the image with the second user.

9. The computer implemented method of claim 8, wherein the receiving the request by the first user to share the image with the second user comprises receiving a tag of the second user.

10. The computer implemented method of claim 8, wherein the receiving the request by the first user to share the image with the second user comprises receiving a message from the first user.

11. The computer implemented method of claim 1, further comprising receiving a request by the second user to include the image in the second archive associated with the second user.

12. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the associating the image with the second archive of the second user comprises including a link to the image in the second archive.

13. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the associating the image with the first archive of the first user comprises including a link to the image in the first archive.

14. The computer implemented method of claim 13, further comprising deleting the link to the image in the first archive.

15. The computer implemented method of claim 14, further comprising maintaining a link to the image in the second archive.

16. The computer implemented method if claim 1, further comprising receiving a request by the first user to share the image with a third user subject to privacy settings.

17. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the image is received from at least one of a photo scanning service and a third party image sharing service.

18. The computer implemented method of claim 1, further comprising sending a notification for the first user indicating that the image has been associated with the first archive associated with the first user.

19. A system comprising:

at least one processor; and

a memory storing instructions configured to instruct the at least one processor to perform;

receiving, by a computer system, an image from a first user;

associating, by the computer system, the image with a first archive of the first user within a social networking system; and

associating, by the computer system, the image with a second archive of a second user within the social networking system without receiving a request from the second user to download the image.

20. A computer storage medium storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed, cause a computer system to perform a computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving, by a computer system, an image from a first user;

associating, by the computer system, the image with a first archive of the first user within a social networking system; and

associating, by the computer system, the image with a second archive of a second user within the social networking system without receiving a request from the second user to download the image.