Patent ID: 8761523

Claim:
A method fir making a media collection associated with an event having an event location, comprising: receiving a specification of members in a group; receiving one or more media elements from each of a plurality of media-capture devices, wherein each media element includes a capture location describing a first geographical location at which the media element was captured and a capture time describing a time at which the media element was captured; receiving one or more media-capture-device signals from each of the plurality of media-capture devices, wherein each media-capture-device signal indicates a second geographical location at which the corresponding media-capture device is located; defining a beginning time of the event directly in response to receiving one or more media-capture-device signals from one or more of the group members indicating that one or more corresponding media-capture devices are at the event location; and associating one or more received media elements that each have the capture location at the event location and the capture time the same time as or after the defined beginning time of the event with a stored media event collection corresponding to the event.