Patent ID: 9565223
Date: 2017-02-07
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Claim:
1. An apparatus comprising: at least one processor; and at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to perform at least the following: receive through a user interface a user gesture made in relation to one or more displayed digital photographs, wherein each photograph, of the one or more displayed digital photographs, has one or more faces each with a tag identifying a contact associated with the one or more faces in the photograph; identify, from the received user gesture, correspondence with one of a plurality of locally-stored reference gestures, wherein each reference gesture of the locally-stored reference gestures is associated with a respective different social network function for being applied at an external social network application; identify the social network function corresponding to the one of a plurality of locally-stored reference gestures identified and a tagged contact or contacts indicated by said user gesture; and communicate the locally-identified function to the external social network application so as to apply thereat said function in relation to the tagged contact or contacts indicated by said user gesture.