Facebook Wins Patent For Digital Media Tagging
While you may find getting tagged in a photo of when you were drunk last night annoying, Facebook thinks such methods are worth protecting, which is why they filed and received approval of a patent for it.
While you may find getting tagged in a photo of when you were drunk last night annoying, Facebook thinks such methods are worth protecting, which is why the company filed and received approval of a patent for it.
The patent, called “Tagging digital media,” describes a method which “includes selecting a digital media and selecting region within the digital media.”
Tagging helped Facebook to explode in popularity, which is why they filed for this patent almost five years ago.
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