Patent ID: 9552421
Date: 2017-01-24
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method for performing collaborative network searching, the method comprising: performing pattern recognition to determine that multiple users seek to participate in a collaborative network search session, the performing the pattern recognition comprising detecting multiple human faces in an image or video of a single physical area; determining, with the performed pattern recognition, an identity of at least two of the multiple users, the determining the at least two of the multiple users comprising performing facial recognition on the detected multiple human faces; transmitting search terms and at least one of: the determined identity of the at least two of the multiple users or user metadata of the at least two of the multiple users; receiving collaborative recommendations in accordance with user metadata of each of the multiple users participating in the collaborative network search session detecting a first change in a quantity of the detected human faces; performing the pattern recognition again, in response to the detecting the first change, to determine an identity of a new user when the first change was an increase in the quantity of the detected human faces; and automatically updating the collaborative network search session to include the new user when the first change was the increase in the quantity of the detected human faces or automatically updating the collaborative network search session to exclude one of the at least two of the multiple users whose identity was determined with the pattern recognition when the first change was a decrease in the quantity of the detected human faces.