Patent Document ID: 8515183
Application ID: 12974184

Base Claim:
1. One or more computer storage media devices having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that, cause the one or more computer storage media devices to perform a method for determining entity associations utilizing images, the method comprising: generating a collection of class images wherein each class image of the collection of class images represents a relevant entity, the relevant entity being an entity of interest for which tracking entity associations is desired; generating at least one image identifier for each class image, the at least one image identifier being a plurality of vectors representative of the relevant entity within each class image; generating a plurality of image identifiers that correspond to the collection of class images; analyzing one or more embedded images on a web page to determine whether a class image occurs in any of the one or more embedded images by comparing the one or more embedded images to the plurality of generated image identifiers; if a class image corresponds to at least one of the one or more embedded images on the web page, associating the web page with the relevant entity represented by the class image; and associating at least one of the one or more embedded images of the web page that corresponds to a class image with at least one other embedded image of the web page that also corresponds to a class image.

---

Claim 5:
5. The one or more computer storage media devices of claim 1 , wherein the one or more embedded images on the web page corresponds to multiple class images of the collection of class images and multiple relevant entities.