Gadgets|May 19, 2011 1:48 pm

Facebook granted patent for tagging digital media

It’s taken a US Patent as well as Trademark Office 4 as well as half years to cruise it, though Facebook right away eventually has a obvious upon a single of a executive features: print tagging. Applied for in Oct 2006 as well as only postulated this week, this authorised doc gives Mark Zuckerberg as well as a integrate of his buddies credit for conceptualizing a process for identifying users in “a preference of an object of digital media.” That could be photos, video, audio, or content — a categorical expostulate of a obvious is which it lets people join forces with a since cube of media with a chairman as well as surprise others of this association. The diction of Facebook’s claims is rsther than specific — we have to, for example, concede a identified chairman a event to reject a marker — so carrying this obvious need not indispensably obviate alternative sites matching to Flickr from enchanting in similar, though not identical, behavior.

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