Patent ID: 8417000

Claim:
A method in a computing device for determining a location at which a photograph submitted by a user was captured using a camera, wherein the photograph is stored as data on a computer-readable medium, and wherein the photograph depicts an image that includes a first person who is the user and a second person, the method comprising: determining a time at which the photograph was captured based on the image depicted in the photograph; in response to determining that no location data at the determined time is available for the user, applying a facial recognition function to the photograph to identify the second person; in response to identifying the second person, receiving location data indicative of respective locations of the second person at a plurality of instances of time during a time period, wherein the time period includes the determined time; and determining the location at which the photograph was captured using the determined time and the location data, including associating a location of the second person at the time the photograph was captured corresponds with the location of the camera at the time the photograph was captured.