Patent Document ID: 8577872
Application ID: 12578502

Base Claim:
1. One or more computer-readable storage media that store executable instructions to select photos, wherein the executable instructions, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform acts comprising: for each photo in a database configured to contain a plurality of photos: determining whether a user has tagged a first person in said photo; determining whether said user has been tagged in said photo by said first person; and increasing a score associated with said first person based on whether said user has tagged said first person in said photo, based on whether said user has been tagged by said first person in said photo, or based on whether said user and said first person appear in a photo together, and said score increasing by a greater amount for said user's tagging, or being tagged by, said first person than for said user's appearing in said photo with said first person; identifying a first set of people that comprises the people in said photos whose score exceeds a threshold; selecting a second set of said photos, wherein each photo in said second set is selected based on the fact that said photo contains a person from said first set of people; and displaying said second set of photos.

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Claim 2:
2. The one or more computer-readable storage media of claim 1 , wherein said acts further comprise: removing a first photo from said second set based on said photo including a person who is not in said first set.