Patent ID: 9143573
Filing Date: 2015-09-22
Classification: G06F,G06K,G06Q,G06T,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method comprising, by a computing device: accessing an image associated with an online social network, wherein the image portrays at least a first person; accessing a social graph comprising a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges connecting the nodes, each of the edges between two of the nodes representing a single degree of separation between them, the nodes comprising: determining a social-graph affinity for each user from a first set of users of the plurality of users; determining, for each user in the first set of users, a facial-recognition score with respect to the first person portrayed in the image, wherein the facial-recognition score is based at least in part on: the facial-representation associated with each user is compared with the image; and generating one or more tag suggestions for the first person portrayed in the image based on the determined facial-recognition scores, wherein each tag suggestion corresponds to a particular user of the first set of users.