Patent ID: 9569658
Date: 2017-02-14
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06K,H04L

Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method for managing and improving face recognition across user accounts in a computer network system, comprising: storing a first account comprising a plurality of images for a first user in a database; constructing, by one or more image servers, a first face model for a person using a first set of images in the first account, the first set of images each depicting the person's face; storing a second account comprising a plurality of images for a second user in the database; constructing, by the one or more image servers, a second face model for the same person using a second set of images in the second account, the second set of images each depicting the person's face, wherein number of images in the first set of images is different from number of images in the second set of images; sharing the first face model with the second user account; and recognizing, by the one or more image servers, faces of the person in the images in the second account at least in part based on the first face model.